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Climate Action 100+ adds companies to engagement list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... their engagement with companies at a scale and pace that has never been seen before - and it is wielding results." Wesfarmers has been removed from the list because demergers and asset sales "leave Wesfarmers a substantially different company," Climate ...

Positive ESG impact linked to financial performance: Melior

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... engagements finds strengths as well as "glaring inadequacies." On the positive side, the report highlights the work of Wesfarmers on gender inequality, noting the company has targets in place for female executives and board members and a gender pay gap ...

Wesfarmers director to retire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Wesfarmers has announced that Diane Smith-Gander will retire as a non-executive director of the company at the company's November AGM. Smith-Gander will retire by rotation and will not seek re-election at the 12 November election. Wesfarmers Chairman ...

Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
Commonwealth Bank and Wesfarmers have signed a $400 million three-year bilateral sustainability-linked loan which will link social and environmental outcomes to the cost of finance. Andrew Hinchliff, CBA group executive for institutional banking and ...

Sustainalytics rates unmanaged ESG risk in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... people." Firms that are relatively well positioned to manage human rights risks in their supply chain include Telstra, Wesfarmers and Woolworths. We don't want to name and shame companies that comply with the Act and find issues," Colombo said. "What ...

Institutional investors step up engagement as part of Climate Action 100+ initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... initial 100 to add an additional 61. Australian companies on the existing list include BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Wesfarmers. Included on the new list of 61 are 10 Australian companies - Adelaide Brighton, AGL, BlueScope Steel, Boral, Origin Energy ...

IGCC annual conference discusses managing climate change risk, solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... "almost no thermal coal" exposure. Where the fund has exposures to fossil fuels through investments in BHP Billiton, Wesfarmers and Rio Tinto, they are "highly engaged in companies regarding climate risk management on both a transition and a resilience ...

Woolworths facing shareholder resolution asking for human rights supply chain disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... to the human rights due diligence, engagement with external stakeholders including trade unions, etc. Woolworths and Wesfarmers scored poorly in the report - they weren't assessed as apparel companies, but on their agriculture supply chain. There is ...

Westpac, Stockland named DJSI group industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... Shell and Adobe Systems. The three largest deletions are Intel Corp, Samsung Electronic and British American Tobacco. Wesfarmers was added to the DJSI this year, while BHP Billiton was deleted. "The iconic DJSI offer a great opportunity for companies ...

90% of ASX200 companies report on sustainability: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Macquarie, National Australia Bank, Orica, Oil Search, OZ Minerals, Qantas, Rio Tinto, Santos, Transurban, Telstra, Westpac, Wesfarmers, Woolworths and Woodside.