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Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... are the drivers from an economic perspective and assessing how themes such as changing regulatory requirements, extreme weather events, income inequality create investment risk and opportunity and how can investors capture that growth opportunity." At ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... understanding everything from labour risks and environmental risks through to productivity issues through to issues like extreme weather impacts and how it might affect them." As a result, there is more focus on supply chain, because as supply chains ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... corporate strategy. The report found that while climate change science predicts a future in which there are more extreme weather events and brought on by warmer global temperatures and that there is increasing awareness that, as a result of recent extreme ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... political consensus. Andrew Hoffman, professsor of sustainable enterprise, University of Michigan Impacted by extreme weather events and guided by changing consumer demand and pressures on capital, companies are acting to manage risk and take advantage ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... risen from 505 to 686, and those reporting emissions reductions has risen from 328 to 683. Respondents identified extreme weather as a likely catalyst for action on climate change, and physical risk was identified as a major driver of investment. "Of ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... caused by the use of these resources is becoming more expensive - in particular through the impact of increased extreme weather events driven by climate change." The report's authors - Aled Jones, Irma Allen, Nick Silver, Catherine Cameron, Candice Howarth ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... nuclear power plants Protecting against rising sea levels Replacing and strengthening infrastructure to meet more extreme weather events, and Maintaining armed forces to defend borders against immigration, defend resource supplies, and provide manpower ...

Australian infrastructure underprepared for climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Australia's infrastructure is not equipped to handle more frequent, extreme weather events and other impacts of climate change, with the electricity, road and rail and financial services sector underprepared, according to a report from The Climate Institute. ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... pricing of externalities like carbon emissions might impact on those. Physical impacts include things such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels and increased disaster risks, and the impacts those have on investments. Law and policy development ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... for the Carbon Action initiative was motivated by a range of factors including concern about climate change and extreme weather events, a growing understanding that emissions reduction activities can be cost-effective, protecting the financial sustainability ...