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Podcast: Is stewardship a sword or a shield for investors - Pablo Berrutti

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainable investing, what is stewardship and how his passion for sustainable investing led him to found Altiorem, a not-for-profit library and resource centre for sustainable finance research. Berrutti has previously spoken to FS Sustainability about ...

CBA invests in native seed merchant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... Service Pty Ltd (Nindethana). The deal sees CBA enter into a strategic partnership with Greening Australia Ltd, a not-for-profit environmental enterprise and majority shareholder of Nindethana. As part of this partnership, CBA and Greening Australia ...

Are investors walking the walk when it comes to voting on biodiversity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
Asset managers have argued in favour of engagement rather than divestment - but a new report from non-profit financial think tank Planet Tracker has found that even sustainability funds at the largest asset managers are consistently voting against biodiversity ...

Greening Australia names new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... it alone." Greening Australia cited Campbell's "significant experience in strategic leadership spanning the not-for-profit, private and public sectors, and a lifelong passion for conservation and sustainability" in announcing her appointment. She ...

Could the anti-woke movement take hold in Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... back on the idea that ESG is anti-workers. "We got here because we pushed planetary boundaries and exploited people for profit," Reynolds said. ESG is about avoiding long-term risk and capitalising on long-term investments into the clean economy, rather ...

Government advisors call for investment in circular economy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... level by 2025 that will help enforce product stewardship for PV waste. There's also a big opportunity for investors to profit by helping unlock the value of circularity - reducing emissions by up to 9.3 billion tonnes and unlocking US$4.5 trillion to ...

Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... is an important part of Australia's 2018 Modern Slavery Act. The Marine Stewardship Council is an international non-profit on a mission to end overfishing that set voluntary standards for sustainable fishing and assurance within the seafood supply ...

Modern slavery on the rise 10 years after Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
It is 10 years since more than a thousand people died in the Rana Plaza textile factory collapse in Bangladesh in April 2013. In the intervening years, regulations to improve factory safety has been introduced in Bangladesh, and issues related to worker ...

Sustainability is facing a data crisis: new research

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... measurement. This comes as a new global IBM Institute for Business Value study of executives and consumers, "The ESG ultimatum: Profit or perish," reinforces that inadequate data is a key challenge when it comes to achieving ESG goals. The Google Cloud ...

South Korea leads with ESG fund disclosure taskforce and anti-greenwash laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong proposed mandatory climate-related disclosure for its listed companies. According to non-profit The Asia Foundation, greenwashing and lack of regulatory clarity are key barriers to the recent rise of ESG standards in South ...