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Holcim NZ launches low-carbon cement facility

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... customers specify projects with confidence. Decarbonising construction is essential to building a future that works for people and the planet."

New collaboration to create TCFD for social risks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... existing initiatives, and will have an inclusive governance structure that includes balanced stakeholder representatives. People most impacted by inequality will have an explicit role in building the framework alongside investors, companies, regulators ...

ASIC fines Future Super over greenwashing Facebook post

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... a Future Super spokesperson told FS Sustainability that Facebook analytics indicate that the post was seen by under 28 people prior to being taken down. Future Super self-reported this to ASIC and paid the $13,320 infringement notice on 27 April 2023. ...

Weighing ESG risks of nickel as a critical mineral: ISS ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... countries with mining, such as tailings release into rivers, certainly, there's concerns over issues relating to Indigenous people, drinking water concerns, etc." It is thus important to focus on environmental and social risk at the company level, Sebrell ...

Podcast: Fighting modern slavery - NSW Anti-Slavery Commissioner James Cockayne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... as we mark the 10th anniversary of the factory collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, a tragedy that left more than 1,000 people dead and galvanised a global conversation on companies' responsibility to eliminate modern slavery in their operations and ...

Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... reported that modern slavery is still on the rise - last year, the International Labor Organisation estimated that 50 million people are in modern slavery at any given time. Profits for traffickers are estimated to be around $150 billion a year, with ...

Hybrid working can reduce carbon emissions by up to 90%

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... spending less time in or travelling to a city centre drives a drop in emissions from buildings and vehicles alike. Allowing people to work close to home, enabling them to split their time between home and a local workplace, has the potential to reduce ...

No role for monetary policy to address climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... said that the government should amend the Reserve Bank Act 1959 such that "the 'economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia now and in the future' is an overarching purpose for the RBA rather than a separate objective for monetary policy." ...

Modern slavery on the rise 10 years after Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
It is 10 years since more than a thousand people died in the Rana Plaza textile factory collapse in Bangladesh in April 2013. In the intervening years, regulations to improve factory safety has been introduced in Bangladesh, and issues related to worker ...

California considers bill to force fossil fuel divestment for CalPERS, CalSTRS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... actions taken pursuant to the bill's requirements, as specified." Supporters of the bill are pleased with its progress. "The people impacted most directly by fossil fuel pollution and climate-fueled extreme weather events are Californians like me: Latinx ...