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Human rights, trust, climate risk top sustainability agenda for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... year of the Modern Slavery Act, wider human rights risks, the issue of restored trust, and increased activity around climate risk adaptation and mitigation all top the agenda for Australia. Leeora Black, partner, Deloitte From a legislative perspective ...

Companies engage with material human rights issues: BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... re-defining non-financial risk," said Andrew Petersen, CEO of BCSD Australia. "We see the same pattern of behaviour around climate risk - a re-emergence of the definition of key non-financial risks, be it climate, gender diversity, supply chain, or human ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5oC only adds to the governing context of directors when it comes to managing climate risk. The IPCC report urgently advises governments and actors to limit global warming to 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels and ...

ASIC report finds 17% of ASX300 identify climate as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued its first report on climate risk disclosures by ASX300 companies. While the statistics discussed in the report are familiar to those who have read similar reports by investment bodies ...

Future Business Generation outlines Millennial climate risk concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
Future Business Generation has called on the superannuation industry to provide more sophistication in climate risk assessment and management, on behalf of Millennials that will retire in the post-2030 world. Oshadee Siyaguna, committee member of Future ...

Local Government Super becomes signatory to Green Bond Pledge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... that all bonds financing long-term infrastructure and capital projects need to address environmental impacts and climate risk, reflecting "the goals of the Paris agreement, and ask[ing] cities, county and state governments, and corporations to account ...

ASX200 stocks with strong ESG performance outperform: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... correlation between performance and disclosure around issues including remuneration, cognitive diversity at board level, climate risk management, supply chain management, and strategic human capital management among other issues, Vamos said.

ACSI to expand research, analyst team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... we want to grow the team to meet that, he said. "We're also looking at more issues - it's not just governance or climate risk. It's things like modern slavery, franchising, capital raising. We want to do justice to those and have an impact." Interested ...

Reports analyse landscape for sustainability disclosures by corporate Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... future-proofing their strategies and assets. "It raises questions about the resilience of current balance sheets, where that climate risk hasn't historically been taken into account and questions around the readiness of those companies," Petersen said. ...

Super funds continue to expand responsible investment activities: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... progress still to be made, however. While 64% of boards are actively considering ESG, including an explicit focus on climate risk, a third of trustees are not. Meanwhile, 10 funds identify climate change risk as a key consideration in strategic asset ...