Editor's Choice
Podcast: Divestment, impact, and all that good stuff with Sharon Davis of Future Super
Today, senior journalist and host Rose Mary Petrass sits down with Sharon Davis, Executive Director of Investments at Future Super, a superfund that invests for a fossil fuel free future.
Three innovations to fix carbon market
With effective risk management and capital allocation, Australia's carbon market can scale to become the biggest in the world, Westpac and the Carbon Market Institute (CMI) say.
Investors fail to vote for climate despite pledges
Board directors of energy companies continue to be elected with over 95% shareholder support, even when those companies perform poorly against investor expectations.
RIAA: Sustainability goes mainstream
The RIAA Conference Australia 2024 is coming up in May, helping investors navigate the mainstreaming of sustainability, and unveiling pivotal initiatives like the Sustainability Classifications and the Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Investor Toolkit.
Whitepapers
Blue bonds: A growing resource for sustainability financing
Issuance of sustainable debt has exploded over the past 10 years as investors seek investment returns by allocating capital toward sustainability efforts.
New ESG reporting regulations - will they uncover existing risks for your company?
New, global ESG disclosure requirements are on the horizon, including for New Zealand, Australia, Europe, the United States and Singapore.
Closing Loopholes legislation
The Fair Work Legislative Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 has been split, with the first part of the Bill passing the Senate on 7 December ...
COP28 Unveiled: Assessing Global Climate Progress and the Road Ahead
This year's United Nations climate change conference, COP28, is in many ways an important milestone, as it will respond to the first so-called global ...
Sustainable development is much abused term which rarely applies to all four pillars: economic; environmental; social and cultural
Social enterprises and cooperatives are best placed to deliver true sustainability simply because their performance metrics go beyond profit, turnover and shareholder value.
Deep down, Australians want transformational change; they want to live in a different way.
In a 2005 survey, Australians were asked which of two positive scenarios of the future they expected and preferred: one focused on individual wealth, economic growth and efficiency, and enjoying 'the good life'; the other on community, family, equality and environmental sustainability. Almost three quarters (73%) expected the former; 93% preferred the latter.7
Richard Eckersley
Over the past few decades, the deepening sense of the profound ecological challenges facing the planet and the growing despair at the inability of "traditional systems" to address economic failings have fueled an extraordinary amount of experimentation by activists, economists and socially minded business leaders.
Hundreds of "social enterprises" that use profits for environmental, social or community-serving goals are expanding rapidly.
As Al Gore would put it we didn't leave the stone age because we ran out of rocks. We found a better way.
[…] New co-op body to stress economic, social value of model […]
it might be of interest to look at how other countries for approaches as to how co-ops and mutuals are evidencing their value and impact -
in Canada, there's the 'co-op difference' programme: http://www.linkedin.com/redire...
and in the UK there's a set of metrics to report on how 'co-op' your co-op is (http://www.uk.coop/cespis) as well as an annual report on the size and value of the sector (http://www.uk.coop/co-operativ...