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Investment in climate-related opportunities grow: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
Investor appetite for climate-related investment opportunities continues to grow, with 90% of investors surveyed by the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) saying they are implementing low carbon strategies. Emma Herd, chief executive officer of ...

Business has role to play in protecting human rights: Gillian Triggs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
Australia lags Western democracies in its domestic implementation of international human rights commitments, and business plays an important role in the protection of human rights, according to Gillian Triggs, former president of the Australian Human ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
The big four banks, Australia's largest superannuation funds, insurance companies and industry groups have launched the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative, a collaborative group to steer investment towards human wellbeing, social equity and environmental ...

Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
More than 130 Queensland sugarcane farmers are participating in a partnership between Coca-Cola and the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia), which provides funding to study innovative and more sustainable farming techniques to positively ...

Meat and fish producers not managing ESG risks: FAIRR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
The world's biggest meat and fish companies are not managing critical business risks such as greenhouse gas emissions and antibiotics risk, with three Australian companies scoring medium or high risk, according to the FAIRR Protein Producers Index. ...

APRA encourages entities to perform stress-test for climate-related risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
The "weight of money" is driving the transition to a low carbon economy, and "commercial imperatives such as investment, innovation and reputational factors, is increasingly driving that shift, rather than scientists or policymakers," according to Geoff ...

Cyber security a rapidly evolving material risk for companies: Citi Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... to talk about how that evolves in terms of development of pricing risk, for example." Citi also cites a World Economic Forum (WEF) 2016 report " Understanding Systemic Cyber Risk", which says that the " evolving nature of systemic cyber risk is still ...

RIAA launches Impact Investment Forum to build scale in sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has launched the Impact Investment Forum, taking over some of the assets from the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing and Impact Investing Australia. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO The Impact ...

APRA calls for stress-testing of climate change risks in regulated entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
The Australian Prudential Regulation Agency (APRA) will emphasise to regulated entities that they should conduct stress testing for "organisational and systemic resilience in the face of adverse shocks" from climate risk. Sarah Barker, special counsel ...

Commonwealth Bank ranked in top ten of G100 Sustainability Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
Commonwealth Bank has appeared in the top 10 list of the G100 Sustainability Index, one of only two Australian companies to make it in the top 100. Kylie Macfarlane, general manager of corporate responsibility. CBA CBA was ranked sixth in this year's ...