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Renewables need to ramp up significantly: CER

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... by purchasing certificates that represent a megawatt hour of power. This creates a market which provides financial incentives to both large-scale renewable energy power stations and the owners of small-scale renewable energy systems. CER is currently ...

ESG salaries revealed, talent shortage predicted as demand surges

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... heads, Kaizen found only 12% of employees receive over $325,000, including super and excluding bonus structures or other incentives - making this salary range the outlier rather than the norm. Bonuses can vary greatly and substantially increase the total ...

Government advisors call for investment in circular economy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... chair of the Ministerial Advisory. He said there was a need for more fiscal and market instruments that will provide incentives for business towards a circular economy. The panel called on investors to think creatively about how to invest with maximum ...

Quinbrook acquires US biofuel producer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... landfill," he said. "The second one is under the IRA, for the first time, biogas can qualify for the same investment incentives that solar and wind and other technologies can. All of a sudden you have biogas projects being able to compete on a level ...

Turning PV waste into investment opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... University of South Australia proposes a comprehensive PV stewardship scheme. Researcher professor Peter Majewski said incentives are needed to encourage producers to design solar panels that are easily recycled. "Australia has one of the highest uptakes ...

Asian companies setting net zero goals, lagging on capital alignment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... but only 8 companies are planning to get their targets verified," Dai said. There is also limited disclosure on ESG incentives in executive remuneration, with 46% of companies having ESG-linked compensation for senior executives. Nearly two thirds - ...

Activist investor launches Santos campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... has called Santos' growth strategy "misguided, reckless and driven by fundamental misalignment between executive incentives and shareholder interests." Snowcap Research, which is an investor in Santos, has issued a letter and a presentation to the ...

Push for greater ESG alignment in C-Suite pay

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... want to mitigate that, you need to incentivise the C-suite to manage those risks, and it should fall into long-term incentives as well as short term incentives, because a lot of the issues are long-term in nature." Melior found that that only 6% of ASX ...

AXA IM sets ESG targets for executive remuneration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
Global fund manager AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) will include ESG targets as part of the long-term incentives of senior executives. Beginning this year, the deferred compensation of around 400 people at AXA IM that will start to be paid in 2024 ...

Majority of investors collaborate on engagement, but disclosure lags: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... basis. There are barriers to enhancing further stewardship - participants idenrified systemic issues (such as lack of incentives, 'free riders', difficulty attributing outcomes to a specific investor), lack of capability, and gaps in knowledge ...