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Asset managers failing on 2050 goals: InfluenceMap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... climate targets. Only ten of the 77 - all European - have committed to restrict investment in fossil fuels such as coal, fracking, and Arctic oil and gas. It found only a quarter have commitments on deforestation, and none have commitments to avoid other ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... responsibility. These issues represent multiple areas of interest, with the Governance Institute of Australia citing fracking, corporate tax minimisation, fast food retailing, and poker machine business as issues where profit-maximisation runs into community ...

UCA Funds Management adds Transfield Services to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... refining unconventional oil and extracting and exporting of unconventional methane gas such as coal seam gas through fracking. Under the new policy, Aurora Oil and Gas, AWE Limited, Beach Energy, Bathurst Resources, Buru Energy, Drillsearch Energy, Maverick ...

UCA Funds Management names fossil fuel exclusion stocks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... refining unconventional oil and extracting and exporting of unconventional methane gas such as coal seam gas through fracking. Natural gas, coking coal and conventional oil remain eligible for investment, and "[w]here a company is a major investor in ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... issues such as the recent report on the level of disclosure concerning oil and gas companies' hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" -activities, and future engagements over labour standards in the extractive industry and direct employee issues in the retail ...

PRI finds limited disclosure of fracking activity, impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... producing and servicing companies provide "very limited" disclosure around risks and impacts of their hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activity, according to research commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Fiona Reynolds, UN ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... investments in thermal coal, unconventional oil such as shale and deep water drilling and in companies that extract gas through fracking. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management CEO UCA Funds Management is an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod ...

UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... identified include: water, human rights, bribery and corruption, unconventional fuels, which the PRI identifies as oil sands, fracking and deepwater drilling, local communities/indigenous population, board-related issues such as diversity, biodiversity ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... international calls, including the International Energy Agency's "Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas" publication. "Fracking" will also be a topic of discussion as part of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20 ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... The second area is around the risk of those companies drilling into the ground and what are the direct local impacts. Fracking is a bit of a buzz word at the moment, but there is a difference in how companies frack, what they do with the fracking fluid ...
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