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New collaboration to create TCFD for social risks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... said." "We also look forward to seeing closer collaboration with the TCFD and TNFD to enhance the consideration of social impacts in transition planning." Governance and balanced stakeholder representation The taskforce emerges in response to market ...

Turning PV waste into investment opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... where businesses take full responsibility for their product throughout its lifecycle, including environmental and social impacts," Rose Read, director of the Centre said. "[It is] a framework and a pathway towards circular economy - design out waste ...

Measuring sustainability performance: comparing an SDG score with ESG ratings

JAN ANTON VAN ZANTEN  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... get top-notch ESG ratings. This suggests ESG ratings fail to thoroughly capture companies' environmental and social impacts. There is also a lack of correlation between ESG ratings from different providers, creating 'aggregate confusion' ...

Defining financial, wellbeing impacts in housing: Kayne Anderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... in-migration - is it job growth, pop growth, taxation efficiencies?" The strategy then looks to add environmental and social impacts in its housing stock. From an environmental perspective, if KA Real Estate is investing in new developments, they will ...

2021 theme in review: human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... Jillian Reid noted that investors need to "get much better at connecting the economic with the environmental and the social impacts," particularly in the way that decisions around decarbonising companies and communities will impact on people. "Investors ...

Integrating just transitions into climate calculations: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... Jillian Reid noted that investors need to "get much better at connecting the economic with the environmental and the social impacts," particularly in the way that decisions around decarbonising companies and communities will impact on people. "Investors ...

Greenwashing a challenge to sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... "To do this, we will assess companies across various measures based on over 700 academic and industry studies of social impacts and externalities." The tool will allow Schroders to measure a company's impact across 70 categories of data, and has ...

Enhanced ESG reporting linked to funding outcomes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... vehicle batteries, and is using an ESG impact reporting platform from Socialsuite to track its environmental and social impacts. Managing director Francis Wedin says that they reported on their ESG performance and positive impact via Socialsuite, and ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... across multiple asset classes, fund managers are developing strategies to capture the positive environmental and social impacts of listed equity investments with the goal of demonstrating how investment capital in public markets can create additional ...

Tech platform to assist ASX companies in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... lithium producer for electric vehicle batteries, is using the Socialsuite platform to track its environmental and social impacts, said Francis Wedin, managing director. "What we do as a company is really heavily skewed to the environmental side, but ...