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Could the anti-woke movement take hold in Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... change. And just last week Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill barring state officials from investing public money to promote ESG goals, and prohibiting ESG bond sales. This is deterring public entities from including ESG matters in ...

Is divestment the last resort for modern slavery?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... for victims who have been affected." Hand in hand on action on modern slavery, Obokata also urged investors to engage on money laundering, as those practices can often facilitate labour exploitation. Holding divestment as a tool of last resort, Obokata ...

Labor's five step plan for biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... rules are being followed. Nature Repair Market A new Nature Repair Market will be created to bring private and philanthropic money into conservation and restoration. The Nature Repair Market will "make it easier to connect people that want to invest ...

ESG salaries revealed, talent shortage predicted as demand surges

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... whatever job they're doing - there's a purpose to their role," Gvalda said. "For a lot of people, it's not about how much money they can earn - it's about how much difference they can make to the world and to the next generation." "When people are looked ...

American Century Investments on impact investing and best in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... engage with companies over a long term. Like all other countries, return on investment, fees, risks and length of time the money will be invested are top considerations in Australia, but 65% regard impact on society as very or somewhat important. In ...

Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... migrant workers coming to Thailand looking for work, and they've been promised to get this fantastic job so they can send money back to their families. Then what happens is, their passport is taken away from them, and they're sent [out] onto ...

Hybrid working can reduce carbon emissions by up to 90%

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... to employees. In a recent study from IWG, 88% of workers said that flexible working was important in a new role to save money and achieve a better work/life balance. In a similar survey targeting job seekers in the Greater Bay Area Hong Kong, IWG found ...

Modern slavery on the rise 10 years after Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... "significant gap" between wages for many workers in the apparel sector in Bangladesh and the living wage - the amount of money people need to survive. "The pandemic has impacted vulnerable workers who were further exposed," she said. "Safety is one piece ...

$500bn investment needed to decarbonise NEM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Australia has one of the largest private capital pools in the world with super funds," he said. "We don't want to crowd that money out. We want to galvanise it by having effectively a renewed focus on public private partnerships where the government ...

The "Wild West" of "blue" investing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... environment. It's this translation that is most important to uncovering what Chambers termed the "invisible" blue economy. Money, Landsbergen said, is "a tool that we can use to get attention and hopefully share some of those decisions to the outcomes ...