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Video: Demystifying ESG from Investor and Investee Perspectives: Closing remarks, AIRA Immediate Past Chairman Warwick Bryan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... data, either in their public reporting or to specialist ESG rating providers. But what ESG information is crucial and material to both investors and investees? Rachel Alembakis, publisher of The Sustainability Report, recently moderated a panel discussion ...

Australasian Investor Relations Association developing ESG engagement guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... interaction with the investment community. For many companies, one or more ESG specific issues are becoming more and more material, and if that information is being communicated to the market in a selective way, arguably it's in conflict with continuous ...

State Street, TruValue Labs to partner in development of AI-assisted ESG research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
State Street and TruValue Labs will partner to promote the development of ESG data solutions according to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework. Dan Gerard, head of Advisory Solutions for Asia Pacific at State Street Global ...

Asset owners identify economic inequality as rising investment risk at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... regulations that came out of the financial crisis." CalPERS uses techniques such as engagement to positively impact on material risks that they have identified in the portfolio, Lind said. He highlighted that CalPERS has regularly engaged with ExxonMobil ...

Fashion retailers increase reporting of human rights in supply chain: Baptist World Aid

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... financially." The report also found that companies are pushing into their third tier suppliers to find the source of their raw material - usually cotton farms. The report notes that "as the majority of the world's child labourers work in agriculture ...

CEFC lends $30 million to ResourceCo for conversion of waste into PEF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has lent $30 million to a resource recovery company that converts selected non-recyclable waste into solid fuel. ResourceCo will use the funding to build two new plants that converts non-recyclable waste streams ...

Directors, senior executives have obligation to consider climate change: Norton Rose Fulbright

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... big open question mark is if there are any changes that need to be made to to ASIC regulatory guidance or supporting material." The comments made by ASIC come after similar statements by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority last month. Geoff ...

Sustainable Development Goals present "enormous opportunity" for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an enormous opportunity for companies to deliver sustainable solutions, and identifying new opportunities should be a key reason for business involvement in the SDGs, according to Alice Cope executive ...

IGCC, AIGCC publish investor disclosure guide aligned to TCFD recommendations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... out the evolution, benefits and limitations of existing climate metrics to ensure that investors present a balanced and material picture of climate change performance.

Experts discuss impact of Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... series of recommendations to integrate climate information into mainstream financial reporting. "Corporate reporting of material risks have long been a feature of reporting regimes, but reporting on climate change, which is potentially one of the e most ...