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Green moves: Aware Super, Minderoo Foundation

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... Metals Group founder, has long put ESG at the forefront of its strategy, which is to drive meaningful change, challenge inequality and pave the way for longer-term sustainability. In her new role, Stevenson will largely focus on the five-year plan to ...

Green moves: CSIRO, Ethinvest, Social Enterprise Australia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... strategies that are grounded, intentional, and capable of driving catalytic, systemic change. "In a world facing rising inequality, escalating culture wars, and a worsening climate and biodiversity crisis, the need to act - intentionally and collectively ...

Economists brace for an uncertain future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
After decades of unprecedented progress in reducing global inequality and poverty, the future looks increasingly uncertain, according to Angela Jackson, lead economist at Impact Economics and Policy. With Australia heading into an election year, potential ...

Aussie billionaires make $67k per hour: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... $46.1 million an hour through financial systems from the Global South in 2023, further increasing and entrenching deep inequality between nations. In 10 years' time, Oxfam predicts that the world will have five trillionaires. Forbes estimates that ...

Climate debate shifts gears after Trump win: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... acknowledging the pervasive political and corporate reach of the US. "The US is the water we swim in," he said, and growing inequality has given rise to a polarised world more selfish by necessity and as a byproduct, "we have created a world where nature ...

Podcast: Impact investing vs philanthropy - UN SDGs with Read Taylor Price

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
After 20 years of progress, we are now seeing rising inequality and poverty reaching levels not seen in a century, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In response, there's been an uptick in demand for companies to report ...

Social-washing hides lapse in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... investment has certainly helped, there is a significant amount of work that still needs to be done to address global inequality and climate-related issues." A concerning rise in unsubstantiated marketing materials that err on the side of 'social-washing' ...

Equality backslides for first time

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... launched with support from Europe's standards-setter and UNDP to help corporates track social impact, as rising inequality reverses 20 years of progress. The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) was launched on ...

Green jobs: Societe Generale, Iress, U Ethical, CDP, TISFD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... finance. This comes as the social equivalent of the TCFD announced new co-chairs for its steering group. The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) is the result of a 2023 merger of the Taskforce on Inequality-related ...

Rural slavery risk raises ESG alarm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... noted that while modern slavery is hard to detect in portfolios, investors should assess risk factors like corruption, inequality and poverty. "Certain countries are more vulnerable to modern slavery risks. But so are certain industries even when they ...
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