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Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... sustainable development." The EU is further down the road on sustainable development, while in Australia, innovation is being led by finance and business, Petersen said. "There's' definitely intent, and it means that there is no ambivalence or reticence ...

SASB Foundation appoints Marc Siegel to SASB Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... contributions." Siegel has experience as an auditor, consultant, forensic accountant, analyst and a standard setter. He previously led the Accounting Research and Analysis team at the RiskMetrics Group, and prior to that, he was the director of research ...

Potentially hazardous ingredients in consumer products as investment risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... chemicals are, but also respond when there is a problem." Previously, Stewart Investors commissioned research from ISF that led to the development of a packaging sustainability performance framework. Stewart Investors commissioned ISF to examine packaging ...

Digitalization a megatrend with risks as well as opportunities: Morphosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... ethical question, and if you look at a lot of the discourse that is happening smart technologies, etc., it's very technologist led, and we haven't yet got a discourse that reaches across to stakeholders to investors and most importantly, to the community," ...

Insight Investment analyses ESG factors affecting sovereign credit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... the most impact. We do an outright scoring and we also look at whether the trend is supportive or not." Insight's framework led the firm to initial conclusions: Countries with higher GDP per capita typically have better ESG scores. This is generally ...

Sustainable Business Australia names John Hewson chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... Board of Directors." Hewson said he was "delighted" to join the board. "With the strong partnership that SBA has with the CEO-led organisation, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development led by President and CEO Peter Bakker, SBA members ...

BayernLB joins Climate Bond Initiative as Climate Bonds Partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... investor engagement, Climate Bonds Initiative. "Within European green finance markets, we see increasing momentum in Germany, led by institutions like BayernLB. To address the ever-more threatening impacts of climate change, it is time for all German ...

Nanuk Asset Management on sustainability aspects of artificial intelligence

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
Advancements in Artificial intelligence (AI) have led to fundamental changes in industries by "creating commercial solution efficiencies on an unprecedented scale," according to Nanuk Asset Management. Tristan Patience, investment manager, Nanuk Asset ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Group to stop lending money. At first pass representatives of a more targeted campaign, called Corporate Backers of Hate and led by the Center for Popular Democracy and Make the Road New York, protested outside of J P Morgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon's ...

Stewart Investors backs research on packaging sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... has commissioned research from the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney that has led to the development of a packaging sustainability performance framework. David Gait, managing partner, Stewart Investors Stewart ...