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First Super taps IFM Investors for ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... strategy is designed to reflect the labour rights areas most important to First Super, aligned with the United Nations Global Compact Labour Principles. "We're focusing on labour rights in particular the back of a number of controversies in Australia ...

Qualitas names Fiona Reynolds to ESG advisory board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... new ESG advisory group. Reynolds, who was chief executive of PRI from 2012-2021 and is currently Chair of the UN Global Compact Network Australia. The Qualitas ESG Advisory Group will "help shape ESG best practice within the firm, identify and report ...

Ramsay commits to Net Zero by 2040

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... future public disclosures. SBTi is a partnership between the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and is aimed at enabling companies to ...

Budget "misses opportunity" to address sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... invested its fair share based on GDP, this would translate to around AU$80-110 billion annually. Meanwhile, UN Global Compact Network Australia (UNGCNA) has called the Budget a missed opportunity to "build back better" and create a more sustainable and ...

HSBC Asset Management launches ESG Asia bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... rated sectors, such as weapons, thermal coal, gambling and tobacco, and issuers considered to be breaching the UN Global Compact Principles. It will be managed by Alfred Mui, managing director, head of Asia fixed income investment management, and Wilson ...

Bank Australia taps NAB executive as chief impact officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... future where people and the planet thrive is one that I can't wait to contribute to." Courville is a director of the Global Compact Network Australia, a commissioner for International Agricultural Research, supporting ACIAR, and a director of the Aluminium ...

Magnis appoints Global Impact Initiative founder to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... Company, which means it is recognised as having "high levels of engagement as a participant of the United Nations Global Compact," according to the UN Global Compact. GII recently launched the Global Gender Equality Fund is the world's first, actively ...

South32 negotiates US$1.4 billion sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... (ICMM) Mining Principles and is informed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Global Compact Ten Principles. "The inclusion of specific measures on our sustainability performance demonstrates our commitment to make ...

Leadership essential in implementing ESG: BNP Paribas Securities Services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... of goals (e.g. UN Sustainable Development Goals), principles (e.g. UN Principles for Responsible Investment, UN Global Compact) and targets (e.g. Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, New Zealand Asset Manager Initiative) have been set. However, whilst these ...

Evolution Mining commits to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... the GRI standards, the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), as well as the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We also aligned our FY21 Sustainability Report with globally ...