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Podcast: Actionable Insights on ESG - Julia Leske

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
We're joined by Julia Leske, managing director for insitutional sales Asia Pacific at ISS ESG, to talk about ISS ESG's recent global thought leadership report, Actionable Insights, and the specific Australian and New Zealand aspects that companies ...

Giant Leap completes fundraise for second impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... Giant Leap released its second Impact Startups Benchmark Report, which provides details on the impact startup space in Australia and around the world. The report found there was an overall pullback in publicly reported venture capital investments in ...

CBRE rolls out sustainability data-intelligence platform for commercial property

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
CBRE Australia and New Zealand is implementing a landlord-focused real estate sustainability data intelligence platform for commercial properties. CBRE Property Management has formed an exclusive global strategic partnership with UK-based Deepki, a ...

RIAA launches armed conflict toolkit for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
Companies and investors need to be aware of the risks, responsibilities and legal obligations that occur in relation to armed conflicts, with the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) launching a toolkit to help investors engage on the ...

Assessing the risks of psychosocial safety

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... hazard in itself." No workplace is immune to social hazards, Paula Bruce, senior workplace relations adviser at IHR Australia said. "Humans are biopsychosocial beings, and these problems are biopsychosocial," Gutierrez added. How do we measure psychosocial ...

Are companies drowning in a sea of ESG requests?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... of businesses and company-specific contexts and processes. The importance of the "G" in ESG Governance came early to Australia and Europe, Cross said. Australian companies understand that governance is vital to help set in motion to systems and processes ...

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. ...