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Hostplus invests in vegan meat, sustainability

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... Hostplus has ramped up its private equity investments with a commitment of over $1 billion across projects that tackle climate change including a meat alternative. The $48 billion industry fund's annual report outlined the investments in medical ...

LaSalle joins 2050 club

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... Environmental Factors to its investment strategy, recognizing the importance of issues such as energy and water efficiency, climate change impacts and resilience, and increasing carbon regulations as long-term, secular demand drivers of real estate," ...

ASX200 advance climate targets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
More of Australia's top 200 companies are implementing strategies in response to climate change, new research shows. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) annual benchmark analysis shows ASX200 companies' climate-related disclosure ...

IFM jumps on net zero bandwagon

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... frameworks and policies to guide and support sustainable decision-making processes that are designed to mitigate climate change risk exposure and help meet the net zero by 2050 target. The taskforce will consider the following establishing emission reduction ...

Women focus in Labor budget reply

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... powering a new era of metal manufacturing and hydrogen production," he said. "Labor has a clear target to tackle climate change - net zero carbon pollution by 2050." He said the Labor party would focus on rebuilding the electricity grid to create thousands ...

AMP Capital included in UNPRI Leaders Group

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... evaluation, and set priorities and review targets," it said. "We see examples of leading signatories that address climate change through an overarching risk reporting framework, where data-driven dashboards are used for senior management to monitor climate ...

Several black holes in budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... industries were massively overlooked as they are one of the hardest hit from the pandemic, while the effects of climate change were also ignored. She also took to Twitter to criticise "more subsidies for the gas lobby." "More money to give approvals ...

Opposition in opposition: Labor responds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... inconsistent. Chalmers also put the spotlight on a number of issues that were not addressed in the budget, like climate change and sluggish growth. "There is no plan to lift the permanent rate of JobSeeker from $40 per day, tackle insecure work, create ...

CSIRO contractor in crypto scam

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
... Pulsar Data Array Analysis, medical research and climate modelling work to measure impacts to the environment from climate change. "The consequences are clear - this was a misuse of Australian taxpayers' trust by a Commonwealth employee, motivated by ...

Rest climate change case pushes ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
Rest's legal stoush with one of its members over the fund's approach to climate change is pushing ahead, with a trial fast approaching. Rest and Mark McVeigh have a hearing for a dispute on discovery and privilege today before mediation on September ...