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Fie, fi, foe, or friend? Consider the relationship between investors, boards: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... meaningful. What we're seeing now is that PRI and Ceres are now working together on a multi-stakeholder strategy on deforestation, palm oil, looking at large scale agriculture, looking at a lot of things." Michael Walsh, CEO of UCA Funds Management ...

Brambles talks sustainability strategy, Sustainable Development Goals and natural capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... supply coming from certified sustainable resources, ahead of a 2020 target to be 100%. "The risk of contributing to deforestation is Brambles' most material sustainability issue," the company said in its review, and in August announced it would divest ...

Red Meat Advisory Council developing sustainability framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... Bondfield noted that some issues in the global roundtable, such as use of child labour and Amazonian rainforest deforestation, are not concerns for Australian-based producers, for example, while water use is a concern in Australia. RMAC's SSG is currently ...

Global Canopy Programme appoints executive director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... not be more critical. Leading companies, investors and governments have made unprecedented commitments to remove deforestation from their activities and supply chains by 2020 - and it's vital they deliver. We'll be tracking and supporting their progress ...

Paris Agreement refers to mitigation co-benefits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... proposed by COP21 and corporations are overly market oriented and that mechanisms like REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) are a new form of colonialism for Africa." Foley also noted that at COP21, Environment Minister ...

Origin Energy endorses We Mean Business commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... climate policy Report climate change information in mainstream reports as a fiduciary duty Remove commodity-driven deforestation from all supply chains by 2020 Reduce short-lived climate pollutant emissions. See Also: AGL Energy joins We Mean Business ...

NCD launches Soft Commodities Forest-risk Assessment Tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... Investor Risk Policies for Soft Commodities, and highlighted the polices that banks and investors can adopt to mitigate deforestation and forest degradation "resulting from unsustainable practices across agricultural supply chains that are major drivers ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... having a strategy in place to procure 100% of electricity from renewable sources Commit to removing commodity-driven deforestation from all supply chains Commit to responsible corporate engagement in climate policy Commit to report climate change information ...

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... change partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. "Those projects cover landfill gas, alternative waste treatment, avoided deforestation, reforestation, savannah burning and other types of agriculture activities. The expectation is that... a lot of them if not ...

ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... population growth, climate change, energy and fuel, material resource scarcity, wealth, water scarcity, food security, deforestation, ecological decline and urbanisation. On average, ASX50 companies identified eight out of the 10 megaforces, with eight ...