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Serving up meat's sustainability risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Robeco has not only engaged with individual companies, but also joined an engagement group to work with the Brazilian government. "We are working on developing a market mechanism that would develop deforestation-free soybeans, and to do that we're ...

Economist urges drastic action on climate change policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... an audience of investors at the Financial Standard's annual Chief Economist Forum in Melbourne that the Morrison government was under growing pressure to set a strong national climate change policy. "We are perhaps on track to meet our 2030 targets ...

C-suite executives cite climate as top risk to growth: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
Australia's C-suite executives worry more about climate change as the top risk to growth, beating out COVID-19, according to EY. That puts Australian executives in a unique position over other global executives, which still view the pandemic as ...

Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The total cost of future damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions can be used to estimate a price as a basis for generating climate change policy as well as considering impacts on companies, according to Dimensional Fund Advisors. Joseph Chi, head ...

Mars Australia shifts to 100% renewable energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... 100% renewable electricity," said Bill Heague, general manager Mars Food Australia. "At Mars, we believe business, government, and individuals must work together to take meaningful action on climate change. This move ensures we are playing our part to ...

CEFC finances Tesla megapack battery project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... additional 19 gigawatts of new dispatchable resources, including utility scale battery storage. Last year, the commonwealth government allocated an additional $1.62 billion to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to invest, while changing the ...

Social, governance risks to unequal global vaccine distribution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia include AMP Capital, Australian Ethical Investment, Aware Super, Ethical Partners Funds Management, HESTA, Local Government Super, and Statewide Super. "Ensuring developing economies have equal access to COVID vaccines, medicines and tests ...

Coca-Cola Amatil sets net zero carbon targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... single resin/polymer plastics, and finishing with paper and cardboard in July 2024. To support this regulation, the government announced plans to spend $250 million over four years to modernise recycling infrastructure, divert more than 600,000 tonnes ...

Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... trade relationships between Australia and its trading partners. It also significantly ups the ante on the Morrison government to commit to more ambitious climate targets. The return of the US to the Paris Agreement process plus China's commitment ...

Ausbil drops fossil fuel companies from sustainable fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
Ausbil has excluded companies that derive more than 10% of earnings from direct and indirect fossil fuel holdings from its Active Sustainable Equity Fund. The fund has recently celebrated its third year since inception, reporting an 11.77% annual return ...