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New nature-based team for AECOM ANZ

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
Global infrastructure consulting firm AECOM has announced the creation of a specialized team dedicated to delivering nature-based client solutions in Australia and New Zealand. The ANZ-based team aims to address complex problems related to climate change ...

Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Sustainability. Last week FS Sustainability reported that modern slavery is still on the rise - last year, the International Labor Organisation estimated that 50 million people are in modern slavery at any given time. Profits for traffickers are estimated ...

Modern slavery on the rise 10 years after Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... companies and investor. Beyond worker safety concerns, modern slavery is still on the rise - last year, the International Labor Organisation estimated that at any given time, 50 million people are in conditions of modern slavery, and there has been a ...

California considers bill to force fossil fuel divestment for CalPERS, CalSTRS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... pension funds to divest from existing investments before 2030, passed its first committee hearing in the Senate Committee for Labor, Public Employment and Retirement. Four Senate committee members referred the bill to the Judiciary Committee for a further ...

Leading Harvest launches Australian ag sustainability standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... and Material Management; Conservation of Biodiversity; Protection of Special Sites; Local Communities; Employees and Farm Labor; Legal and Regulatory Compliance; Management Review and Continual Improvement; and Tenant-Operated Operations. The standard ...

Climate change to shape economy long-term: Forum

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... economic consultant and councillor on the Climate Council, addressed Australia's fiscal policy context and direction, the Labor government's ambition on social policy and climate change and its risks. "The aging population hasn't gone away ...

Testing ESG impacts on US pension fund returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... state's fund management practices. Twenty-five American Republican state attorneys general are suing the US Department of Labor to halt new rules that would allow US-based retirement plans to consider ESG factors in their investment processes. Texas ...

US attorneys general call out proxy advisers for "woke" agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... campaign. Earlier in the week, Paxton and Reyes and 23 other state attorneys general filed suit against the US Department of Labor to halt new rules that would allow US-based retirement plans to consider ESG factors in their investment processes. An ...

US states sue Biden administration over "woke" ESG rules

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
Twenty-five American Republican state attorneys general are suing the US Department of Labor to halt new rules that would allow US-based retirement plans to consider ESG factors in their investment processes. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Utah ...

Podcast: Australia's role at COP15 with Andrew Petersen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... received an influx of new member applications and interest in attending COP27 primarily in the wake of the election of the new Labor government along with new legislation to increase carbon reductions to 43% and the possibility of Australia hosting COP31 ...