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Biden inauguration brings climate challenge for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... acceleration of electric vehicles, particularly as the market in America is responding to EV automotive production as the next technology opportunity." Petersen also sees wider implications for driving sustainable growth, as outlined in the Sustainable ...

Seeking financial, positive impact in SME investments: Beckon Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... solve the problem by building a tech gateway that allows us to do a lot of the heavy lifting on a tech platform. The technology platform helps us identify and originate businesses that we might want to invest in, and help us engage without using a lot ...

Australia's Paris Agreement carbon commitments criticised

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia's NDC of the previous submission. As part of its submission, Australia detailed its previously announced Technology Investment Roadmap, which will "guide the deployment of an estimated $18 billion of Australian Government investments over the ...

Tech platform to assist ASX companies in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... companies can measure, monitor and report their material environmental, social and governance (ESG) exposures through a new technology platform linked to the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s ESG Global Standard Metrics. Socialsuite produces technology ...

Risk management to grow in importance: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... that we require are changing and that's partially because a lot of routine skills can increasingly be performed by technology, so it's the higher level thinking skills, the human skills, the connectivity skills, that are more in demand."

Cromwell Property Group sets net zero carbon target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... against many of our FY20 objectives," including attaining formal ISO accreditation covering environmental and information technology management practices in Australia, maintaining safe and efficient operations across our property assets and the certification ...

Sharp increase in food waste: Rabobank Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... retail outlets in Australia. "There are three big challenges," Murillo said. "The first is obviously giving access to technology to farmers, the second is to educate consumers on the fact that coffee is a fruit that can be consumed and it can be used ...

AGL, ARENA in $8m electric vehicle charging study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... customers who already have their own chargers. "AGL is investing in renewable and flexible generation supported by storage technology including residential batteries and grid-scale batteries that provide firm capacity for our transition from coal to ...

Cost of no climate action to hit Australian economy: Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... economic growth, Philip said. "Pre-COVID-19, massive shifts have been taking place," he said. "Shifts such as the rise of technology, particularly information communications tech, now feeding into new forms with AI and robotics, digitisation more generally ...

First Sentier publishes Modern Slavery Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... risks in the equity and fixed income investment teams in consumer discretionary - in particular retailers, apparel and technology; health care supplies, energy and construction; and the emerging markets debt team include "countries that are marked by ...