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Australian wellbeing hits record low

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... Low satisfaction with community connectedness corelates with recent studies finding that rates of social isolation in Australia have skyrocketed and loneliness now costs Australians $2.7 billion annually in health: just over one-third of Australians ...

30% women a minimum for boards under new ACSI policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
ASX-listed companies that do not have a minimum of 30% women in board positions face votes against male director re-elections as the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) updates its voting policies for members. ACSI's new voting policy ...

Investing in First Nations People

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... and Gunditjmara Indigenous nations of Western Victoria and New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea. Reconciliation Australia in 2022 found that in a time of dramatic global decline in public trust in institutions, mutual trust between First Nations ...

Graforce and Worley to scale GHG-free hydrogen gas technology in APAC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... the establishment of the $2 billion Hydrogen Headstart initiative to scale green hydrogen projects across the country. Australia is the seventh largest gas producer in the world and is expected to become an important supplier of green hydrogen for Germany. ...

Could the anti-woke movement take hold in Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... conference held in Melbourne this week, investment and political science experts discussed whether this could occur here in Australia, and what this means for Australian investors. FS Sustainability is the official media partner to the conference. Mirova ...

Podcast: Capturing green returns - Mamadou-Abou Sarr

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... Global Equity ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition Indexed Strategy tracks the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) ex-Australia ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition Select Special Tax Index. It integrates considerations of financially material ESG ...

No pause button on greenwashing action: ASIC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... to introduce a mandatory climate-change related disclosure regime for large businesses and financial institutions in Australia. "Greenwashing is a corrosive agent to carbon abatement," Chester said at the RIAA Conference in Melbourne on Wednesday. FS ...

No room for complacency for Australia as a renewable energy superpower

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
Australia has "no room for complacency" if it wants to become a renewable energy superpower, according to a new report from EY's Net Zero Centre. EY has published Seizing Australia's energy superpower opportunities, the latest report from EY's ...

Is divestment the last resort for modern slavery?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... of slavery urging investors to stay engaged. Speaking at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) RI Australia 23 conference in Melbourne, Tomoya Obokata, special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery at the United Nations noted ...

Renewable energy, climate in spotlight in Federal Budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... compliance with the Modern Slavery Act 2018, to improve transparency in supply chains and help fight modern slavery in Australia and abroad," the budget said. In his speech to Parliament, Chalmers spoke of the government's desire to make Australia a ...