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Investors back climate bill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... submission, we've pointed out a few improvements, but overall, these proposed laws, if enacted, would deliver what the community expects, make investing less risky, lessen the shock to certain Australian industry sectors whose goods are no longer ...

Opinion: Sustainable finance: the new normal in 2021

SIMON O'CONNOR, JACKI JOHNSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... improve important social goals that are captured in the Sustainable Development Goals. The determination by the global community to achieve these goals has gathered pace in the last months of 2020, with net-zero emissions commitments coming out in a ...

Rio leadership overhaul aimed at restoring trust, license to operate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... around the world condemning the incident and calling for change. HESTA, the $56 billion industry fund for health and community services, crafted a statement on working with Indigenous communities and wrote to 14 Australian mining and energy companies ...

Circular economy a key investment theme: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... issues. The company is looking to reduce its carbon footprint, its toxicity footprint, and do something to benefit the community and he overall supply chain. That falls under environmental protection and sustainable living. This is where these themes ...

Social license to operate, stakeholder management key governance concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... including return on investment - is balanced by consideration of other groups including employees, customers, and the community and economy at large. The way a company is run and how it conducts itself does have bearing on its ability to generate long-term ...

SSGA to use proxy vote over ethnic, racial diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... governance committee at companies in the S&P 500 and FTSE 100 that do not have at least one director from an underrepresented community on their boards. "The bulk of the letter this year was around racial and ethnic diversity," Benjamin Colton, global ...

T. Rowe Price joins Responsible Investment Association Australasia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... to responsible investment globally. Joining RIAA formalises our engagement with our clients and the local investment community to further promote responsible, ethical and impact investing." T. Rowe Price integrates environmental, social and governance ...

Stakeholders mull impact of Rio Tinto report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... is made up of Aboriginal Land Councils, Native Title Representative Bodies and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Organisations. The First Nations Heritage Protection Alliance backed a number of activist resolutions to AGMs at ...

Evolution Mining links value generation to sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... sources that have no other beneficial use? That forces us to think about water saving initiatives." Evolution identifies community stakeholder relationships and social license to operate as a "among our most valuable assets," according to the annual ...

AGL, ARENA in $8m electric vehicle charging study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... we have said we will continue to support the decarbonisation of the economy, which is what are customers want and the community expects." AGL aims to accelerate the commercialisation of the orchestration of EV charging by examining the key sources of ...