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Green moves: Aware Super, BlackRock, Taylor Fry
|A Housing Australia executive moves to BlackRock, while Aware Super welcomes a climate reporting and sustainability manager and Taylor Fry sees the return of a veteran actuary.
'Surreal', 'difficult' times for sustainable investors: RIAA
|A leading voice for sustainable investing in the US admits the anti-ESG movement has been "difficult" and "surreal" as investors fear being overly scrutinised, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) Conference heard. There are, however, some bright spots.
Young workers drive DEI in workplace: RIAA panel
|The windchill of politics on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs fronts a deadly counterpoint - young professionals entering the workforce with zero tolerance for inappropriate workplace behaviour.
QIC completes equity raise, refinancing for Pacific Energy Group
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Mandatory sustainability reporting in Australia
This paper provides an in-depth guide on identifying which entities need to prepare mandatory sustainability reports in their annual reports, and covers ...
Decoding Trump 2.0 and the impact on ESG investing
From an ESG perspective, Trump's social, economic and political agenda will keep issues rich and complicated for companies and investors alike, and that ...
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.