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Legal loophole fail: compliance won't dodge risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... (UNDRIP) alongside the right to self-determination. Drafted by Terri Janke & Company, a 100% Indigenous owned and run law firm, the guides are spearheaded by the First Nations Heritage Protection Alliance (FNHPA) in partnership with the Responsible Investment ...

Australian Unity to assist as trustees in compensation deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Indonesia," per Australian Unity and media reports. Scheme administrator Mark Barrow of Ken Cush and Associates, the law firm acting for the victims, selected Australian Unity as the trustee responsible for holding funds in trust for victims and managing ...

Brookfield ups the ante on Origin by $1.2bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... and sustainability as public benefits in previous decisions," noted Claire Forster, partner and co-head of energy at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. "However, the Brookfield decision is the clearest and most significant example. It is a major transaction ...

Nature credits a potential bonanza for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... the guidelines to integrate nature-based reporting into their strategies. This brings both risk and opportunity, and law firm Clayton Utz has published Building Biodiversity: Australian nature markets beyond the TNFD outlining the next steps required ...

Social license or social-washing - weighing the value of public statements on the Voice

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... position on the referendum, which contrasts with the supportive position many had for the marriage equality vote in 2017. Law firm Clayton Utz, previously against the Voice, has now publicly backflipped. It supported the Uluru Statement from the Heart ...

Baker McKenzie hires special counsel from industry super fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... including ESG advisory - to super funds. Thalia Dardamanis joins Baker McKenzie as special counsel. She comes to the law firm from UniSuper, where she was head of legal advisory. "Thalia further bolsters our capability to service Australian superannuation ...

Magnis appoints Global Impact Initiative founder to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
Global Impact Initiative (GII) founder and CEO Giles Gunesekera has joined the board of lithium-ion battery company Magnis Energy Technologies. Gunesekera joins ASX-listed Magnis as an independent non-executive director. The company cited his "unique ...

COP26 preview: reporting, carbon markets and role of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... achieved in one country and then traded to another country to be counted toward the buying country's NDC," noted law firm DLA Piper. There are issues to negotiate that weren't settled at COP24 in 2018 in Poland, said Carbon Market Institute CEO ...

Compliance risk to new waste, recycling laws

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... recovery and reuse in daily operations must understand and comply with rapidly changing regulatory regimes, according to law firm McCullough Robertson. With the rise in growth of circular economy initiatives and progressive bans on exporting recyclable ...

Directors urged to exercise legal duties over climate risk as context evolves

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
This week, Exxon was cleared over charges it had misled shareholders over the cost of climate change, but a legal expert cautioned that directors should not interpret too much from the decision. Sarah Barker, head of climate risk governance at Minter ...
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