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ANZ companies report board level climate oversight, more needed: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... are transition risks and the most common are policy and legal-related, such as increased pricing of GHG emissions, regulations on existing products and services, as well as enhanced emissions-reporting obligations. Given the response to the 2019 report ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... "82.7% of the banks are involved in controversies related to compliance breaches (such as breaches of money laundering regulations, violations of economic sanctions, etc.) and, among these, 29 companies (equal to 55.8% of the sample) are involved in ...

Quantitative managers test ESG data as stand-alone factor in strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... could be driven by the act that they're more transparent, and that transparency is the result of more laws and regulations. "...Once you want to start using the ESG scores, you'll have to take out those biases. That's what we do, it's ...

Climate change, modern slavery on ESG engagement agenda: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... could be living in modern slavery conditions. Ausbil has consulted with the Department of Home Affairs regarding the regulations that will underpin the reporting. "The consultation we've done with the government is good, and I feel we've added the investor ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... ExxonMobil by the New York state attorney general for allegedly misleading investors of the risks that climate change regulations posed to its business should be a warning sign for Australian directors. Sarah Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison Lawyers ...

40% of Chinese Coal Power Plants are Losing Money: Carbon Tracker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... stations are already losing money, and this could rise to 95% by 2040 because of the cost of complying with air pollution regulations and a rising carbon price. "There are a couple of obvious applications for the research," Gray said. "It will help with ...

CAER urges investors to consider ESG risks of cannabis companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... passed internationally to legalise parts of the industry." CAER also cited uncertainty around local geograpnhical regulations, citing that although some US states have legalised cannabis for recreational and/or medical purposes, US Attorney Jeff Sessions ...

Cement companies need to "more than double" emissions reductions: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... regulation of the cement sector has been light, "but rising ambitions for low carbon cities and tightening building regulations could drive change up the chain." CDP noted that the best performing companies were located in India, "thanks to reducing ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... Australian perspective, '95 was the year that buybacks started to become a factor," he said, "with the introduction of new regulations that make buybacks more feasible. In the US that transition happened much earlier, in 1982, but they really took off ...

Sustainalytics outlines ten key global ESG risks for 2018

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... incidents involving emissions, effluents and waste in 15 countries around the world. Other key risks this year include new regulations on consumer protection, such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and mounting risks from ...