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Australia falls in EY renewable energy index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... position in the RECAI. EY said President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan (CPP) sent a strong message of accountability for the shift to a low-carbon economy. "The CPP is the most comprehensive, far-reaching and flexible emissions legislation in the US ...

US pension suit points to potential fiduciary risks: MinterEllison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
A lawsuit filed by members of US-based Arch Coal's corporate pension plan points to potential exposures of trustees who do not effectively consider changing risk and return impacts such as climate change, according to lawyers at MinterEllison. Maged ...

Human rights considerations part of trustee board obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... long time," Paterson said. "They engaged with the company itself quite extensively. I don't think we're seeing a sudden shift in attitudes. Having said that, there is no doubt that entering into the sort of S space in the environmental social and governance ...

Teachers Mutual Bank cash product certified ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... offer a responsible investment wholesale cash product to the market" said Steve James, CEO of Teachers Mutual Bank. "With a shift in consumer sentiment leading to more Australians calling for action on climate change, there has been an increase in demand ...

PRI active on climate change, tax avoidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... from my perspective, rather than having a board that needs to spend its time on internal governance, they're now able to shift the mindset to where we're going in the future, and how do we take the agenda forward." While climate change has been a large ...

IIRC releases Competence Matrix for IR training

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... business schools and professional bodies, the IIRC said. "At its heart, training in Integrated Reporting should lead to a shift in focus from financial management to value management," said Neil Stevenson, IIRC managing director, global implementation. ...

Super boards can add value with ESG focus: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... you create an environment to allow diversity to flourish. It can't be nominalism, but action followed through with some shift in numbers." Meanwhile, respondents also told BNP Paribas and AIST that another strong theme was a "board that focusses on ESG ...

Investors consider corporate pay links to climate change goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... types of investments, you can seek to ensure that climate change risks are being factored in, and that's likely to drive the shift to decarbonising the shift within that stock." Several diversified mining companies are demonstrating that they are considering ...

Early stages for ESG-factor investing: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... that's still, I think, in the research/understanding mode versus execution/implementation. There's still not a wholesale shift out, and we're still at the edges from an investor perspective." Northern Trust has formally established an asset management ...

Decarbonising economy requires sophisticated investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
Divesting from the worst emitting fossil fuels is only one step towards decarbonising the world economy, and Australian Ethical Investment says achieving the stated goal of capping global temperature increases to 2 degrees C requires a "sophisticated ...