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VicSuper joins Financial Inclusion Action Plan program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... Australia, BaptistCare, Commonwealth Bank, EnergyAustralia, HESTA, NAB, the Queensland state government, Suncorp, Swinburne University, and Westpac. Since then, the trailblazer group has grown to 30. "We've been working on financial literacy, inclusion ...

Artisan raises $26 million for the Clean Energy Seed Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... accelerators such as EnergyLab. The fund is also designed to invest in clean energy startups such as accelerators, incubators, university programs and angel groups. The fund will invest at seed, angel and later stage follow-on rounds in 30-50 startups ...

Removing complicity in modern slavery?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
Ed note: The Sustainability Report is pleased to present this article from Katherine Christ of the University of South Australia and Roger Burritt of the Australian National University Dr Katherine Christ and Professor Roger Burritt Revealing the world ...

Asset owners identify economic inequality as rising investment risk at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... climate change is a key 'E' issue. Last year the PRI began to turn its mind to inequality. We've teamed up with Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government to build the investment case, but also some tools, indicators, metrics that investors need ...

Commonwealth Bank issues $650 million climate bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... FlexiGroup, and as sole arranger and lead manager on the world's first climate bond from a tertiary institution for Monash University's $218 million USPP climate bond. Commonwealth Bank sees future growth for green bonds and assets. "Increasing investor ...

NAB launches social bond focusing on companies, gender equality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... companies included in the initial NAB Social Bond (Gender Equality) portfolio are Lend Lease, Mirvac, Stockland, Monash University, Australian Catholic University, PwC, KPMG Australia, King & Wood Mallesons (Australia), Clayton Utz, Gilbert + Tobin ...

Number of culturally diverse women ASX leaders "extremely low": DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... all-time high, the number of culturally diverse women leaders is "extremely low," according to research from Deakin University and Diversity Council Australia (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia Deakin University and DCA investigated ...

GRI Global Sustainability Standards Board appoints chair, new members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... director of corporate responsibility at Nasdaq, Kenton Swift, professor of accounting and distinguished faculty fellow, University of Montana, Michel Washer, deputy chief sustainability officer, Solvay, Julia Wilson, director, global responsibility and ...

Putting Sustainable Beef on the Table

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
Ed note: The Sustainability Report is pleased to present this article from Katherine Christ of the University of South Australia and Roger Burritt of the Australian National University Dr Katherine Christ and Professor Roger Burritt Roger Burritt, ANU ...

University of Melbourne launches Sustainability Plan 2017-2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
Allan Tait, vice-principal administration and finance and chief financial officer, University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne will divest itself of fossil fuel holdings, become carbon neutral before 2030 and achieve zero net emissions from ...