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New code of practice guidance for voluntary carbon markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... version of a new Scope 3 flexibility claim, designed to enable companies to offset indirect Scope 3 emissions through high-quality carbon credits and prevent misuse of such offsets. This will be launched next year. According to MSCI Carbon Markets (formerly ...

Sustainable AUM tops US$30 trn despite tighter labels

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) and other global disclosure and labelling approaches evolve, and as data availability and quality increases. The Global Sustainable Investment Review (GSIR) 2022 comes as the sustainable investing community ramps up for ...

UN-informed tool to assess SDG progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... investments aligned with their sustainability commitments. "By mapping the UN Sector Impact Map to our comprehensive and high quality ESG data, our customers can bridge the gap between ESG integration and Impact investing, acting with more clarity and ...

Carbon credit review falls short on CO2 capture and slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... information about project structure and activities. A higher level of detail of attributes will provide a greater assurance of quality to the credit purchaser and will reduce reputational risk in purchasing vintage projects or projects with shorter perm ...

Sustainable bonds underperform on climate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... climate-target credibility, compared to 18% of other issuers. This indicates that investors should carefully consider the quality of labelled bonds in their security selection and potential issuer engagement, their alignment with recognized frameworks ...

AustralianSuper rejects latest Brookfield overture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... challenge facing the nation as we work towards Net Zero by 2050 is not a lack of capital but rather a shortage of good quality investment opportunities." Proxy advisers including ISS, Glass Lewis and Ownership Matters have recommended in favour of the ...

Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... difficult to find companies that meet the revenue threshold minimums for positive impact on areas like deforestation or water quality. "We have struggled to find direct biodiversity ideas that would directly result in an improvement in forestry, for ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... to develop their reporting maturity without undue fear of litigation risk" that will "incentivise entities to make high-quality disclosures on a best endeavours basis." A spokesperson told FS Sustainability that mandatory reporting will incentivise organisations ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... restoration), direct exploitation (including resource exploitation and soil health), pollution (including water and air quality, hazardous substances, and plastic waste), climate change (Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions), and invasive alien species. It will ...

NSW Anti-slavery commissioner raises alarm on ASX risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australia's Modern Slavery Act, a report produced by Pillar Two. It describes analysis of ASX200 companies against 46 quality indicators in six areas, measuring not just strict compliance under the Modern Slavery Act but also whether companies reported ...