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Sustainability important to future of SME sector: Australia Post

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... is really important," Starr said. "We are supporting our customers with our range, being clear on our own goals and the target we set ourselves around environmental sustainability." The report also identifies three common sustainability issues that respondents ...

Climate Action 100+ aviation engagement takes off

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Australian company to appear in the aviation sector strategy, and it is an existing part of the Climate Action 100+ engagement target list. The new aviation strategy continues the existing engagement with Qantas, noted Laura Hillis, director of Climate ...

Biden inauguration brings climate challenge for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... cut carbon emissions from the initial Paris Agreement in 2016. Australia has committed to implementing an economy-wide target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28% below 2005 levels by 2030, according to the latest NDC. By not having a strong ...

Circular economy a key investment theme: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... make sure the transition is secure. That's why it's important to have a realistic approach to this. We want to see a smart target, basically having these targets that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound. Our impact framework ...

Global impact bond issuance spike in 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... discretion of the issuer," he said. "But it starts to hit at the idea of best practice. The questions are, if you don't hit the target, is there a strong enough disincentive to prevent that. Should issuers be more aggressive on the penalties? "As a company ...

Translating net zero goals into near-term decisions: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... But what we call enhanced is that first of all, the targets will be firmly linked to our portfolio exposures, so we will target key emitters in key impact sectors, and secondly, we will create a scoring system with an escalation model that if the scores ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
Editorial note: This piece is sponsored by T. Rowe Price Interest in impact investing is quickly increasing, and while strategies are growing across multiple asset classes, fund managers are developing strategies to capture the positive environmental ...

Australian Ethical tops $5 billion in assets under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... through a combination of record net inflows during the period and strong investment performance. Australian Ethical set the target of reaching $5 billion AUM by 2020 in 2015, when funds stood at $1.4 billion, said Mark Simons, Australian Ethical CFO. ...

SSGA to use proxy vote over ethnic, racial diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... the approach to gender diversity that SSGA has conducted. "If you look at our Fearless Girl campaign, we started with the target of having one female director, and we continued to expand the focus across geographies and escalated the guidelines," Colton ...

Australia's Paris Agreement carbon commitments criticised

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... climate change," the submission states. "Under a Paris Agreement applicable to all, Australia will implement an economy-wide target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030." This is in line with Australia's NDC ...