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Chronos Sustainability appoints Arisa Kishigami

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... has also played a principal role in supporting the investment industry's efforts on climate change adaptation and mitigation through its work with the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and other industry bodies, and acts as ...

Climate change to bring more frequent, intense weather: IAG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... experience longer fire seasons and more extreme bushfires. This will reduce the amount of time able to be spent on mitigation and fuel management activities including hazard burns, IAG noted. There will also be more hailstorms with large to giant hail ...

U Ethical hires two to investments team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... of corporate sustainability strategies and governance, integrated reporting, stakeholder management and climate risk mitigation and adaptation plans. Luchhese has been involved in numerous trans-disciplinary and cross-sectoral initiatives, including ...

Brambles reports progress on 2020 sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... climate related risk. This includes price and availability of timber supply, potential impacts of pests and disease, and mitigation is already underway as part of procurement, supply chain and asset efficiency programmes. "Supply material risk has always ...

AAIB, Amundi launch climate investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... of the Paris Agreement into fundamental metrics to assess an investment's level of alignment with climate change mitigation, adaptation and low-carbon and climate resilient development objective." AAIB and Amundi say there is a climate finance investment ...

Australia "woefully unprepared": Australian Climate Roundtable

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... resilience to climate change. They recommend that coordination of Australia's response to climate change (both mitigation and resilience) should be a standing item for the National Cabinet, as different jurisdictions have different responsibilities ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... 89% treat equities as their favourite underlying asset class. "The emphasis in the beginning was very much on risk mitigation," Rajan said. "Let's avoid sin stocks if we can. But investors soon realised that this sort of exclusion narrowed the diversification ...

Aurecon directors appointed to FIDIC Sustainable Development Committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... impact of climate change and provide a meaningful forum for consulting engineers to share ideas on how they can enable mitigation, adaptation and resilience to climate change and develop and maintain buildings and infrastructure assets that are truly ...

Chronos Sustainability hires Ian Woods for strategic Australian/NZ role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... firm has also played a principal role in supporting the investment industry's efforts on climate change adaptation and mitigation through its work with the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and other industry bodies, and acts as ...

BIG W joins Action Collaboration Transformation on Living Wages

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... other stakeholders have told The Sustainability Report that maintaining relationships with suppliers is a key risk mitigation strategy during COVID-19, particularly in the garment industry. They have advocated that companies strive to retain those relationships ...