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Allens sets target to achieve 35% female partners by 2022

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... sense - look at where the pain points are and how to resolve them in getting to that target," Warren said. "We've identified a few across a number of strategies. One of them is flexibility and normalising flexibility in the ways we work, talking to people ...

Considering the first 20 years of the Global Reporting Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... reports in Australia, but also much more broad-based reporting that is influenced by GRI," Black said. "Today, there are very few companies in the ASX200 that are not thinking about sustainability in one way, shape or form, and most of them are producing ...

Diversity Council Australia explores "double jeopardy" facing culturally diverse women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
A survey of more than 230 culturally diverse women who are leaders or aspiring leaders in Australian-based businesses say that there is strong evidence that "double jeopardy" - gender and cultural background combining - is locking them out of leadership. ...

Australian companies developing internal carbon price within the next two years: SBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... is critical." "There is a lot of building to be done about consistency, comparability and pure data," Petersen said. "Very few companies have thought through what that has meant in terms of impacts on their assets. That says to us that the risk model ...

Globally, few companies can effectively demonstrate climate risk disclosure: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
Few globally listed companies can "effectively demonstrate to investors how they climate risk into long-term strategy", according to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). Rakhi Kumar, Managing Director and Head of ESG Investments and Asset Stewardship ...

Australian Catholic University issues $200m Sustainability Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... issued their social bond on gender equality, I did have detailed discussions with NAB about their themed bond, and that hit a few chords as well," Jenkins said. "When ICMA's sustainability bond guidance came out in mid-June, they provided an umbrella ...

ASX200 sustainability disclosures improve, but climate-related data needed: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
ASX200 companies' sustainability disclosures are improving, but fewer than half of the ASX200 have a climate change policy or emissions reduction target, according to new research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Louise ...

Pengana selects WHEB Asset Management to manage Hunter Hall Global Deep Green Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... to Pengana. "This fund is about looking at the sustainability challenges faced by people living on the planet in the next few decades and how we can address the social challenges and environmental challenges," Myers said. "Any company that makes it into ...

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures releases final report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... remained the same. Mardi McBrien managing director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board said the organisations has a "few questions" for the TCFD around language in the definitions of financial filings and mainstream reporting, but in total, the ...

Climate Bonds Initiative analyses disclosure of use of proceeds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... that all activities are green," and thus do not have separate use of proceeds reporting. Finally, the report notes, "in a few cases", there was no public reporting on bonds, but issuers could have given private letters directly to investors. The report ...