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Universities jump on ESG skills shortage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Bond University, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, the Australian Institute of Management, and the Australian College of Business Intelligence now offer short courses on ESG for business leaders and professionals preparing their company's mandatory ...

UBS passive strategies flagged on human rights

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
A human rights complaint against UBS follows legal precedent that financiers are responsible for acting on human rights in passive index funds. The Swiss human rights watchdog accepted a complaint against UBS for holdings in private prison contractors ...

UBS nabs ex-UOB sustainability lead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainability management and leadership training with the University of Cambridge and the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC).

Fidelity creates chief sustainability role, plus new chairs for IPCC and PRI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... assessment cycle. With forty years of experience in the climate space, Skea is a professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College London, was co-chair of IPCC Working Group III and has taken a vocal stance on the importance of a just transition. "Climate ...

Investments at risk: Finance "out of step" with climate science

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... world should be corrected as a matter of fiduciary duty, according to a report by economist Steve Keen from the University College of London and think tank Carbon Tracker. The report calls widely used economic modelling "wildly out of step" with climate ...

Just transition: a fair go for fossil-fuel workers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... recognizes that the move towards net-zero emissions is a significant opportunity as well as a risk. However, as Imperial College London academic Jim Skea noted in an opening address, a wider perspective is required to reflect the particular national ...

Ramsay commits to Net Zero by 2040

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Ramsay Health Care has committed to reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 42% by 2030 with a goal of reaching net zero across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 2040. The healthcare provider has announced that its net zero emissions targets are aligned to the Science-Based ...

Setting the standards for diversity within funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... of two sub-indices: the Diversity Index, which measures progress towards the firm's goal of reflecting the broader college-educated population and the Equity & Inclusion Index which compares employee engagement across different employee populations ...

Neuberger Berman joins global diversity initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... of two sub-indices: the Diversity Index, which measures progress towards the firm's goal of reflecting the broader college-educated population and the Equity & Inclusion Index which compares employee engagement across different employee populations ...

Climate Bond Standard launches shipping criteria for bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... shipping criteria were developed via a technical working group process with Tristan Smith and Sophie Parker of University College London as lead technical consultants. The technical working group was supported by an industry working group to develop ...
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