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Super battle on impact investing and returns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... infrastructure and business investment arm that invests in waste-to-energy and resource efficiency. The second commitment was to European private equity firm and specialist healthcare manager ARCHIMED.

AI trumps climate as chief risk factor: economists

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... geopolitical risks With 2024 set to be the biggest election year in history, nations are heading to the polls in the European Union and across at least 64 countries including the United States, India, and the UK. Hutley compared the current global situation ...

Australia climbs quickly on climate policy development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... ahead of Australia (10) in the total number of climate policies announced by respective governments. Additionally, the European Union put out a total of 32 new climate policies. The data covers the period from November to June 2023, and was compiled ...

Corporates to begin adopting final TNFD recommendations

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... (ISSB) and the impact materiality approach used by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and incorporated into the new European Sustainability Reporting Standards. TNFD co-chair David Craig commented that businesses are "inadequately accounting for nature-related ...

Wesfarmers taps former Coca-Cola Amatil exec for board role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... director of Coca-Cola Amatil for seven years, stepping down on 10 May 2021 following the acquisition of Amatil by Coca-Cola European Partners. Before leading Coca-Cola Amatil, Watkins was chief executive officer of GrainCorp, and prior to that was chief ...

Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia's size is that it ends up being the price taker," said Jason Collins, CEO, European Australian Business Council and chair, European Business Organisations. "that's always a risk and particularly when you have, for example, a US administration ...

Biden inauguration brings climate challenge for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... This will also impact on Australia's bilateral and multilateral trade agreements. The Australian government and the European Union (EU) are in latter stages of negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) that will not only serve to strengthen trade ...

Climate change, SDG impacts of US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... applied by countries which have adopted more aggressive emissions reductions policies." The Australian government and the European Union (EU) are in latter stages of negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) that will not only serve to strengthen trade ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... commitment to a whole wide range to bilateral and global issues," said Jason Collins, CEO of the European Australian Business Council. "The EU is very committed to it, any partners that it engages with in FTAs are fellow travelers when it comes to a ...

Louise Davidson joins International Integrated Reporting Council board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... chief executive officer. Howitt will succeed outgoing CEO Paul Druckman on 1 November. Howitt is currently a Member of European Parliament (MEP), and will step down as MEP when he takes up his new position at IIRC. Howitt has served as MEP for more than ...
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