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BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... essential to protecting a healthy economy and safeguarding against systemic risks to portfolios. It marked proxy voting, company engagement and policy advocacy as key to its strategy to influence the decision-making of companies, governments, and markets ...

Investors "flying blind" to climate litigation risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Investors and regulators could be liable for trillions of dollars in potential damages from climate lawsuits - but are failing to take this threat into account when evaluating risks to their investments. Investors are focusing on physical and transition ...

Treasury publishes climate disclosure legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... disclosures to the market regulators, with remedies limited to "injunctions and declarations." Australian Institute of Company Directors managing director and CEO Mark Rigotti said investors are "searching for higher quality and more fulsome climate ...

Carbon markets heat up

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... has acquired a minority stake in renewable energy certification platform Evident for an undisclosed sum. The UK-based company provides independent environmental markets registration and certification - an important transparency mechanism for both companies ...

Northern Trust pulled up for greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... NiSource, and Power Assets Holding. US-based DTE Energy has a fossil fuel mix of 68.58%. NiSource, another US-based energy company, relied on fossil fuels for 95% of its energy as of the latest available data in 2020. Hong Kong firm Power Assets Holding ...

Podcast: New year, new portfolio - ethical investing with Louise Edkins

THE GREENER WAY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Petrass chats with Edkins about risk tolerance, financial returns versus positive impact, and how to evaluate whether a company or investment product aligns with ethical criteria in the current global economic and geopolitical climate.

The rise and rise of ESG salaries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... are socially and environmentally responsible. Consumers are making conscious decisions on where they spend, based on a company's sustainability credentials. Organisations within supply chains are required to disclose ESG compliance and scope 3 emissions ...

ACSI updates voting guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... contractor safety and sexual harassment." Nature and biodiversity: A new section outlines nature-related risks. Where a company's impacts and dependencies on nature present material financial risks, ACSI expects a company to identify, mitigate and disclose ...

L'Oréal Groupe invests in First Nations-led biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
The world's largest cosmetics company will commit $600,000 to a WA-based native title corporation to support self-determination through biodiversity restoration in degraded croplands. The Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation' (ETNTAC) ...

COP28: "Weak" Global Stocktake slammed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... scale of oil and gas influence at COP28. COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber is also the president of UAE state-owned oil company Adnoc and recently claimed "no science" behind fossil fuel phase-out. Australia, the US, UK, Canada and Japan all stated they ...