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Activist investors set sights on paid parental leave

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... submit a shareholder resolution by the end of February asking G8 to follow the Workplace Gender Equality Agency's best practice guide in formulating a paid parental leave policy. The activist investor works by gathering 100 shareholders, the minimum ...

Green moves: S&P, Northern Trust, Magellan, Maple-Brown Abbott

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... portfolio companies, key stakeholders, and industry peers. With a background in climate science, sustainability best practice and infrastructure planning, Lucchese has worked for the EU Commission, the UK's Capital Markets Union, and the UN Global ...

CEFC invests $100m into affordable housing strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... strategy is an important step in an equitable energy transition, taking an integrated approach to leverage global best practice and drive clean energy outcomes to provide benefits to tenants, and more broadly to help to address housing supply and affordability." ...

Apollo scoops up Argo Infrastructure Partners

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Among its assets is TierPoint, an operator of data centers in the US. Under the deal, Argo - which integrates ESG best practice into its investment decisions - will join Apollo's Sustainability and Infrastructure group. Upon closing, about $9.7 billion ...

Big money urged to leverage influence

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... challenging" to meet "their net-zero commitments... without such engagement." NZAOA is a member-based group offering best practice guidance on net zero. The UN-convened NZAOA saw its membership explode from 12 to 88 since 2019, with cumulative AUM now ...

QIC Real Estate secures $3.75bn SLL

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... reduce all three Scopes of carbon emissions, target Cleaning Accountability Framework certification, and promote best practice ethical labour practices. Sustainability performance will be tracked using the Green Building Council of Australia's new ...

Good governance on cyber threats

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... collaborated with the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) to ensure the principles capture the latest best practice in an evolving risk environment. CSCRC CEO Rachael Falk said cyber security is of increasing complexity and importance ...

Why climate-linked exec pay fails

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... and nature investment and advisory firm Pollination, IGCC assessed 14 high-emitting ASX-listed companies against best practice in climate-linked pay packages for executives, interviewing investors, proxy advisors, board members, and senior leadership. ...

More work needed on climate risk response

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Authority (APRA) urged all regulated entities to consider the findings, reflect on their own preparedness and implement best practice for climate risk management. APRA's second climate risk self-assessment survey, released on Wednesday, finds there are ...

Canberra to expand ACCU scheme

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... recommendations in line with the 2022 Chubb Review. "When introduced in 2011, the ACCU scheme was based on sound science, best practice and independent advice," Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen said. "Thanks to climate policy reforms ...