Showing posts with label potential risks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label potential risks. Show all posts

02 March, 2018

Shareholders target QBE over climate change ‘failure’

QBE Insurance Group has become the latest big listed company to be hit with a demand for more transparency about potential risks it faces from climate change, amid calls by a prominent company director for boards to consider "uncomfortable questions" on the issue.
QBE has been hit with a shareholder resolution on climate risk.
Melbourne NGO Market Forces, which last year filed similar resolutions targeting Santos, Oil Search and Origin Energy, has this time teamed up with the $10 billion Local Government Super to call for more disclosure of climate risks by the insurer.


Read the story by Ruth Collins in The Age - “Shareholders target QBE over climate change ‘failure’."