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Women make strides on ASX300 boards, but cultural diversity lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... 300 board is around 19 years. The youngest director is 27 and the oldest is 89. Women tend hold more higher education degrees compared to men - 8.4% of female board members have a PhD compared to 5% of males. And 22.1% females have an MBA, compared to ...

Carbon capture and storage questioned after Chevron result

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... allow further use of fossil fuels while meeting the aims of the Paris Agreement to contain global warming to less than 2 degrees C. In a session at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) conference in June, Shell Australia ...

Why the move to clean energy won't be enough

ALISTAIR MILLS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... landmark and legally binding international treaty on climate change, with the goal to limit global warming to around 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. This was known as the Paris Agreement. Many go as far as to call climate change ...

APPEA conference kicks up controversy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... oppose genuine climate action which argued that the group's lobbying is inconsistent with limited global warming to two degrees. The report claims APPEA's support for net zero emissions by 2050 is only "notional" in nature and in reality it opposes any ...

Oxfam Australia calls for stronger climate action amid GDP risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... implement the economic shift that comes with meeting the Paris-aligned target of containing global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius. "We're advocating that governments work closely with labour rights movements, affected workers, their communities ...

Supermarket group signs 10-year renewable deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... UN-backed Science-Based Targets Initiative in line with the business's contribution to limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees. NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean said he was pleased to see more companies and businesses enthusiastically entering the renewable ...

Science-Based Targets an indicator of future climate action: Federated Hermes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... aimed at enabling companies to set greenhouse gas emissions targets to 2050 in line with containing climate change at 1.5 degrees C. SBTi in January published a progress report looking at 338 companies that had set science-based targets between 2015 ...

Investors shifting to net zero targets: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... commitments to decarbonise by mid-century, the commitments are still not enough to align with containing global warming to 1.5 degrees. "This brings us to the key challenge, the distributed leadership of governments, investors and companies," Peppelenbos ...

Companies making net zero commitments they need to keep: investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Climate Action 100+ is a collaborative investor group that engages with 159 focus companies - the largest GHG emitters ...

Aviva Investors puts companies on notice over climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... businesses or those that do not act quickly enough. "We are informed by the science, we have to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees and that means we have to reach net zero by 2050," said Mirza Baig, global head of ESG research and stewardship at Aviva ...