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Green moves: Frontier Advisors, OMERS
|Frontier Advisors has appointed former Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) specialist Aneesha Singh as responsible investments consultant, strengthening its advice to asset owners on climate, sustainability and responsible investment.
Australian Ethical drops KPMG as auditor
|Australian Ethical will drop its decade-long auditor KPMG and will soon begin the competitive tender process for a new external auditor from FY28.
Philanthropies join forces on Australia's catalytic capital
|Four Australian philanthropic foundations have united to establish the Catalytic Capital Consortium Australia (C3 Australia), a partnership designed to increase the flow of catalytic capital in Australia.
Instos call for global nature disclosure standard
Fifteen financial institutions have called on global sustainability standard-setters to develop a dedicated nature-related disclosure standard, warning that a fragmented approach could undermine investor comparisons and efforts to address biodiversity loss.
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The Federal Court has dismissed greenwashing claims brought by the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) against Santos.
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Roundtable reflections: Is ESG dead?
"Is ESG dead?" we asked at our recent Responsible Investors (RI) roundtable in May this year. Short answer: no.
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Australia's social media age ban: A digital turning point for society and investment markets
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How economics and energy security are driving the next phase of the energy transition
Looking ahead, the next phase of the energy transition will be defined by practical system build-out rather than headline climate commitments.
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This is an excellent article adressing the importance of Value Creation and that it needs "consorted" efforts. At Tata in 2002 with UNDP an Index for Sustainable Human Development with UNDP was based on addressing human develooment goals. It was a pioneering work on developing a business excellence process based on "consensus" centris Assessment process. There was an internal and external process l.
A good report and solid guidance. Using the Strategy. Governance Risk Management and Metrics approach of the TCFD is a solid recommendation. Thank you.
While I agree that SDGs should be a part of a company's Operating System (OS), papering an organisation with a collection of SDG tiles is window dressing. The description report provides detail to show what is necessary and how to build and implement the SDG OS.
The aspect of assurance is highlighted in the section regarding enhancing credibility. It is here that the AA1000 standards can assist. One would however need to build a reporting mechanism into the OS that would allow the assurance on data and processes to be undertaken simply. This is not trivial.