Board Leadership of the Year Award 2019
Farmers for Climate Action (sponsored by Karstens)
The selection panel commented: "Agriculture accounts for approximately 15 per cent of Australia’s emissions. Farmers for Climate Action is a movement of farmers, agricultural leaders and rural Australians working to ensure farmers are a key part of the solution to climate change. The Farmers for Climate Action board has supported farmers to build climate and energy literacy and advocate for climate solutions both on and off farm. They are independent, non-profit and non-partisan. They have helped farmers communicate with the public about climate change which is critical as farmers are frequently recognised as some of the most trusted voices on climate change given their traditional and conservative views on the environment. The current Chair, Lucinda Corrigan, also a farmer, has focused her leadership and passion on advancing action on climate change, overseeing the growth and direction of Farmers for Climate Action.”
Business Leader of the Year Award 2019
Andrew Mackenzie (sponsored by Ashurst)
The selection panel commented: "In July this year, Andrew gave a speech entitled “The Climate for Change – Confronting Complexity” at the Financial Times Conference in London, UK. As CEO, Andrew Mckenzie announced a commitment to work with the shippers, processors and users of its products to reduce Scope 3 carbon emissions. To measure stewardship of BHP’s products, he committed the company to set public goals to address the Scope 3 emissions in 2020. By undertaking to tackle Scope 3 emissions, BHP has led by example, not just on the ASX, but listed entities globally. It is expected that this initiative will also have a material impact on assisting its customers reduce their emissions.
Andrew also committed the organisation to setting targets which links climate risk management to remuneration, the application of scenario analysis and disclosure, as well as setting up a fund of US$400 million for investment to reduce emissions across the value chain.”
Joint Winner - Risk Manager of the Year Award 2019
Salman Ikram ul Haq - Medibank Private (sponsored by Fujitsu)
The selection panel commented: "Salman Ikram ul Haq is the Head of Risk at Medibank Private and he has led the integration of climate risk management into Medibank’s business. Medibank has taken a proactive approach to manage climate risk and Salman has undertaken market scanning to benchmark Medibank’s risk profile against other financial services institutions in the context of climate change risk. He has embedded climate risk governance into its enterprise risk management framework to continually assess its impact on the delivery of the company’s services. In our view, this has gone beyond what other organisations are doing in the health insurance sector.”
Joint Winner - Risk Manager of the Year Award 2019
Taryn Lane - Hepburn Wind (sponsored by Fujitsu)
The selection panel commented: "Taryn Lane is General Manager of Hepburn Wind Cooperative that owns and operates a wind farm near Daylesford, Victoria. The Hepburn Wind Cooperative has over 2,000 members who raised most of the capital to build the 4.1 MW wind farm in 2011. Hepburn Wind’s journey since commissioning in 2011 has been a turbulent one with numerous risks posed to the business. Hepburn Wind is a shining beacon for community-owned renewable energy, overcoming emerging risks and diversifying its generation portfolio to continue to meet its member’s expectation.”
Small Company Leadership of the Year Award 2019
Better Building Finance (sponsored by Ashurst)
The selection panel commented: "Better Building Finance (BBF) is an initiative of the Sustainable Australia Fund. Since being established in 2015, it has partnered with more than 30 Victorian Local Governments to enable them to offer Environmental Upgrade Finance in their municipality. Environmental Upgrade Finance (EUF) is a new and growing way for businesses to fund environmental upgrade projects like solar, energy efficiency, retrofits, water and waste management. The agreement has enabled BBF to establish and administer the program for 30 Councils across Victoria with no upfront cost to Councils. BBF has seen $27.1 million invested in 54 projects, delivering a combined greenhouse gas (GHG) emission saving of 349,000 tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) over the life of all the projects representing good value for money in emissions abatement and enabling energy users to access capital otherwise not readily available to them. Also in 2019 BBF partnered with ARENA the for the second time, to take this excellent initiative into NSW and SA."
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