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Assessing the financial, ESG benefits of agricultural investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... said QIC head of agriculture and regional investment Tom Murphy. QIC holds an 80% stake in the North Australian Pastoral Company (NAPCo), which consists of six million hectares of land across Queensland and the Northern Territory and 200,000 cattle. ...

NAB launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... market comes with challenges - Jenkins points to the need to have scrupulous standards when selecting KPIs that match company ambition, rather than rewarding insufficient action. "The challenge will be ensuring that when it's done, it's done ...

New Climate Action 100 engagement to tackle food and beverage sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... investor networks of the Climate Action 100+ initiative. "What we have tried to emphasise in this strategy is that these company supply chains do create risk, in terms of climate change, as well as reputational risk of actions that happen in the supply ...

Reflection on 10 years of climate action: ISS ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... in the market, the progress is actually quite disappointing," Horster said. "It's not that all of a sudden, every company is reporting its greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, despite all this conversation over 10 years, an additional one thousand ...

ASX companies not disclosing labour hire risks: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... report focuses broadly on what ACCR calls "triangular employment arrangements" involving three parties: a worker; a host company; and an intermediary, such as a labour hire agency. The arrangement "splits contractual and control relationships: the worker ...

NSW Land Registry Services in $300m sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... outcomes," said Eliza Mathews, head of sustainable finance, Westpac Institutional Bank. "These were identified by the company as areas that are material to them and the sustainability targets were developed in an iterative process," Bailey said. "The ...

Greenwashing a challenge to sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... financial costs companies may face as these impacts crystallise. "The best way to describe it is if you could provide a company with an invoice at the end of the year, reflecting the costs or benefits they have created for society, externalities that ...

Santos sued over clean energy, net zero claims

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Oil and gas producer Santos' claims that natural gas provides clean energy and that the company has a pathway to net zero emissions by 2040 will be challenged in federal court. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) has filed a ...

Supermarket giant inks $1.3bn sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... direct line between our sustainability performance and our cost of capital, providing transparency and accountability," the company said, and follows the release of its full sustainability strategy in June 2021. The SLL links the interest rate of the ...

Record FUM growth at Australian Ethical

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... announced a dividend in its results. With net inflows of $1.03 billion during the year driving FUM up to $6.07 billion, the company announced underlying profit after tax of $11.1 million and operating revenue of $58.7 million, up 19% and 18% respectively ...