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CEFC to oversee $300m Advancing Hydrogen Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will oversee a $300 million Advancing Hydrogen Fund aimed at supporting the growth of "a clean, innovative, safe and competitive Australia hydrogen industry." Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean Energy Finance Corporation ...

Identifying potential risks of COVID-19 and modern slavery in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... global supply chains." This disruption, and the health and safety and greater human rights impacts on employees in the supply chain both in Australia and internationally have raised concerns in business, investment and civil society circles. Supply chains ...

Property Council of Australia develops platform for modern slavery data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... that gathers and collates information from industry suppliers on their modern slavery exposures in operations and supply chain. Robin Mellon, CEO of Better Sydney and member of the Australian government's Modern Slavery Expert Advisory Group The collaborative ...

GCNA awarded federal grant to provide training on modern slavery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
The federal government has granted the UN Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA) nearly $100,000 to help companies tackle modern slavery risks under the National Community Crime Prevention Program. Vanessa Zimmerman, founder, Pillar Two GCNA will use ...

Coronavirus pandemic produces supply chain crisis: Baker McKenzie

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
The coronavirus pandemic has produced "an unprecedented global supply chain crisis" that is based on a lack of flexibility in global supply chains and a lack of diversification in sourcing strategies, according to a new report from Baker McKenzie and ...

Modern slavery, climate risk key elements of RI activity: First Sentier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... sources- country level vulnerability, prevalence of modern slavery at the sectoral level, in commodities, importing and supply chain. There's all this data, the question is how to bring it together for an investment team to look at and say this is where ...

Climate risk assessment impacts on small, mid-cap portfolios: Fairlight AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... with a minority of businesses making an informed estimate of indirect emissions that occur upstream through their supply chain and downstream through customers and end users. In the case of an auto manufacturer, for example, complete disclosure would ...

ANZ companies report board level climate oversight, more needed: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... that are further down the management pathway, to engage with them on their scope 3, or emissions embodied in their supply chain. "We are looking at companies that we call early stage/developing," said Pratima Divgi, director of Hong Kong, Southeast Asia ...

Climate change, plastics, human rights drive 2019 engagement: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
Material issues related to climate change, modern slavery and human rights in the supply chain, plastic pollution were some of the topics that formed the basis of engagement in 2019 for fund manager Ausbil Investment Management. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny ...

Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainability leader Companies are making decisions to protect health and wellbeing within operations and in their supply chain as well as shore up stability. "This is the real test for corporations as to whether they meant it when they said they're ...