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Personal views influence climate decision-making

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... to 1.65°C by 2100 at a 50% probability. Financiers face barriers to investment from greenwashing and a lack of adequate data from companies on their climate plans, but are actively using both engagement and divestment in equal proportions as tools for ...

Family businesses see ESG driving future: Grant Thornton

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... however - it's a "broad banner of all environmental, social and governance issues," Pogson said, including modern slavery, data protection, sustainable packaging and waste management. "What we're seeing is that the ESG discussions are being led ...

AXA IM warns companies on climate lobbying

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Ahead of the new 2024 voting season, a global asset manager with US$1.4 trillion in assets under management has announced it will take action and vote on key ESG proposals. AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has changed its voting policy, stating it will ...

Final text of EU ESG laws released

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... February). The Council of the EU aims to improve transparency and due diligence processes, and the ability to verify the data used by the ESG rating provider in producing its ratings. Rather than providing a single ESG rating, the text requires separate ...

China stock exchange rings in Year of the Dragon with ESG mandate

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... celebrates the Lunar New Year, mainland China's three main stock markets announced that companies must disclose sustainability data. The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), the Beijing Stock Exchange (BSE), and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), published ...

Amazon's Queensland operations to run off solar

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... announced the commercial operation of a new 125-megawatt renewable energy project that will power Amazon operations, including data centres and fulfilment centres. This comes as Premier Steven Miles yesterday introduced the Clean Economy Jobs Bill 2024 ...

Rest selects Dasseti for ESG due diligence digitisation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... diligence to simplify processes and enhance insights. "Having an enhanced ability to review and interrogate our due diligence data will bring recognised efficiencies to our investment process," Rest said. "We are expecting these improved insights to ...

Dramatic spike in votes against ASX remuneration: Georgeson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... are not directly affected in the immediate term, performing gap and peer analysis against the standards, prepare for robust data collection, due diligence and reporting processes and ensuring that boards are well informed about legislative changes, investors' ...

Brookfield reaches first close on second transition fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... environmental benefits," Teskey said. "New trends are also emerging, such as supplying reliable, clean power to the surging data and technology sector, building entirely new industrial supply chains, and scaling technologies required for industrial decarbonization. ...

ASX companies boosting ESG staff, oversight: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... companies have ESG or sustainability as a specific KPI versus 45% in 2022. But there is a significant size effect in the data, Perennial said, with 63% of smaller companies indicating that they do not have remuneration associated with ESG as a KPI compared ...