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Just transition: a fair go for fossil-fuel workers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... could be exposed to significant risk. Australia's oldest power plant, AGL's Liddell power station, closed down 28 April. Travis Hughes, general manager of energy hubs for AGL, says that more closure plans are in motion for the energy company. ...

ASIC fines Future Super over greenwashing Facebook post

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... people prior to being taken down. Future Super self-reported this to ASIC and paid the $13,320 infringement notice on 27 April 2023. "The post on the Future Super Fund Facebook page overstated the positive environmental impact of the fund and we were ...

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
... Employment and Retirement. Four Senate committee members referred the bill to the Judiciary Committee for a further hearing on 18 April. CalPERS - the California Public Employees Retirement System - has approximately US$443 billion in assets under management ...

Australian Ethical hires CIO, head of impacts and ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Ethical also announced two other appointments. Ludovic Theau will join the firm as Chief Investment Officer effective 3 April 2023. Theau is the former chief investment officer of the $30 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Theau has more than ...

New Forests appoints new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... billion in assets under management," he said. Mark Rogers will become chief executive of the global investment manager in April, while Brand will take on the new role of chair. Rogers has been managing director, Australia and New Zealand since 2016 and ...

US Dept of Labor green-lights ESG integration

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... brought by the US regulator over failures involving ESG research used to select investments. In conduct stretching from April 2017 to February 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged Goldman Sachs had several failures in relation to two ...

ISSB to require Scope 3 emissions disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... emissions from electricity purchased and used, and Scope 3 covers all other indirect emissions from the value chain. The ISSB in April released two drafts covering general sustainability-related disclosure requirements and specific climate-related disclosure ...

RBA governor urges implementation of ISSB standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... investors want it, and if we don't do it then they will be reluctant to invest in Australian businesses." The ISSB in April this year released two drafts covering general sustainability-related disclosure requirements and specific climate-related ...

Cbus names new head of responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... AICD's 30% Club Investor working group. Nicole Bradford was Cbus' previous head of responsible investment. She left in April to join the Australian Retirement Trust as head of sustainable investment. Cbus is one of 32 funds recognised by Rainmaker ...