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Social and governance factors top "new risk reality"

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Social and governance risk are gaining traction as a focus for corporates, as these topics become recognised as central to sustainability - now an essential in today's climate-conscious world. In a shifting corporate risk environment, governance ...

Australian gender pay gap data to be revealed from February

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
From February 2024, Australian companies with 100 or more employees will be required to publish their median gender pay gap between male and female employees. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) will publish the first set of private sector employer ...

Guide to identify and manage modern slavery for NSW entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
The NSW anti-slavery commissioner's office has published a guidance on managing modern slavery risks applicable to the more than 400 NSW public entities that fall under that state's modern slavery legislation. The Guidance on Reasonable Steps to Manage ...

China relaunches offsets market, releases biodiversity framework

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
China's Certified Emission Reductions (CCER) scheme has restarted after a six-year pause, as the country releases its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. Suspended in 2017 due to low trading volume and lack of standardisation in carbon audits ...

NSW can achieve electricity reliability without coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
There is no need to use taxpayer fund to keep Australia's biggest coal power plant open beyond its planned closure date in 2025 as the state of NSW has made "massive progress" on new renewable energy and battery capacity, according to think tank Climate ...

BlackRock admits stakeholder pressure on ESG a risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
For the first time in its quarterly earnings report, BlackRock identified stakeholder pressure on ESG and AI as risk factors that may influence returns. In its earnings release published on Friday, the firm warned that "increasing focus from stakeholders ...

Investors "flying blind" to climate litigation risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Investors and regulators could be liable for trillions of dollars in potential damages from climate lawsuits - but are failing to take this threat into account when evaluating risks to their investments. Investors are focusing on physical and transition ...

Treasury publishes climate disclosure legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Super funds with more than $5 billion in assets under management will have to report on the financial impacts of climate change from 1 July 2026, according to mandatory climate risk reporting legislation proposed by government. Treasury released the ...

Paris overshoot: are investors prepared?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
In the face of projections that 2024 is set to surpass the 1.5°C Paris Agreement threshold, experts are concerned that investors are unprepared for the escalating risks associated with climate change. Investors navigate these risks by employing models ...

Carbon markets heat up

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
The beginning of 2024 has seen a maturing carbon market attracting greater attention from stakeholders across various sectors, indicating a surge in demand in both voluntary and compliance markets. Xpansiv invests in Evident US energy market infrastructure ...