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Farm to table reporting to increase ag investment certainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... data will be updated to align with current agricultural practices, emission factors, and international data reporting standards. Post-farm processing, transportation, and storage will also be integrated. This engagement with post-farm businesses will ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS) will first focus on climate-related financial reporting, under an exposure draft released by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). AASB has opened up a 120-day comment period on ASRS 1 ...

NSW Anti-slavery commissioner raises alarm on ASX risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Application near Wagga Wagga tied to certification that the "manufacture of the solar panels" meets defined anti-slavery standards." Cockayne suggested that identifying and managing modern slavery risks shared common ground with the process of identifying ...

Arup becomes approved verifier for Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... enables Arup to support investors and lenders more fulsomely to obtain green finance across Asia Pacific," Fairlie said. "Standards like the Climate Bonds Standard provide much needed transparency between parties and external stakeholders on the green ...

UK transition plan taskforce releases final disclosure framework

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... economy transitions to net zero". Transition plans are gaining momentum globally, with the International Sustainability Standards Board's (ISSB) Standards (IFRS S1 and S2), released in June, also expecting disclosure of transition plans. While the ISSB ...

New EU rules at the border and beyond

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... first standard in the world to define green bonds. The regulation enforces uniform, EU sustainable taxonomy-aligned, standards for issuers who wish to use the label for the marketing of their bond. All issuing companies will be required to disclose how ...

Solving carbon credit concerns with blockchain

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... custodian Zodia Custody in 2021. "We feel it is important to have a transparency in carbon markets. Both technology and standards support this and given that this is a developing market bringing both together will really help the market evolve," Chapman ...

Investing in net zero "makes business sense": Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... government commitments to bring in mandatory climate disclosure forcing company boards to plan for how to comply with standards, and investors engaging with emissions intensive companies with the aim of working with them to set ambitious reduction targets ...

Australian companies lagging on climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... disclosure are potentially better placed for when climate disclosure and the introduction of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) accounting standards come into force in Australia. "Companies are gearing up for that," Proudlove said. ...

KPMG and Microsoft pair to upskill ESG

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... release of KPMG's Circularity Tracker, an automated data collection tool offering model-based data calculations using standards, regulatory reporting metrics and universally accepted measurement frameworks for circularity performance. KPMG head of global ...