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Successful merger for social and inequality reporting framework

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... for the proposed initiative is the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD). The UN- and OECD-aligned initiative will address inequality and social-related "impacts, dependences, risks, and opportunities" by strengthening ...

Australia the guinea pig for PRI sovereign engagement pilot

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... the engagement program. "Australia performs above average on social and governance factors, but it has underperformed other OECD countries significantly in terms of climate indicators that we measure in our ranking." Atkin added that many investors now ...

NextEnergy Capital's ESG solar fund raises $480 million at first close

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Global solar specialist NextEnergy Capital's fifth fund - an OECD-focused solar strategy - has reached first close with investors including Norway's largest pension fund. NextPower V ESG aims to develop over 14 gigawatts of energy assets - enough to ...

Untapped talent: Australia missing out on $50b in GDP

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Australia has one of the lowest employment rates for people with disability in the OECD and could add over $50 billion to its GDP by 2050 if it tapped into this talent pool, according to new research from the Business Council of Australia (BCA) and ...

No room for complacency for Australia as a renewable energy superpower

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... innovation in a way we haven't done before," he said. "Australia spends three to four times on agricultural R&D than the OECD average but never much in the way of manufacture," Hatfield-Dodds said. "Here what we need is essentially a way of derisking ...

New collaboration to create TCFD for social risks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... The proposal was initiated by the Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) coalition together with its strategic partner, the OECD. B4IG members include Amundi Asset Management, AXA, BNP Paribas, Unilever, and Microsoft. It is also supported by the World ...

Twiggy Forrest invests in Ukraine's post-war green future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... Forrest briefing US President Joe Biden, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, and the international business community including UN Special Envoy Michael Bloomberg ...

Budget spotlights climate, gender and long-term development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... to improve visibility of key indicators at a national level." In budget papers supporting the speech, Treasury cited the OECD Framework for Measuring Well-being and Progress for how Australia performs on a variety of environmental, social and wellbeing ...

Podcast: Inclusive product design with Amarachi Seery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... in companies that are not compliant with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights or non-compliant with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and they avoid investing in companies that are associated with corruption or doing ...

Quinbrook "hopeful" over post-election renewable energy outlook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... deployed in that timeframe to achieve it." Scaysbrook regards the US as the most opportunity-rich investment market in the OECD, and has invested there and in the UK. With the commitments made by Australia, Australia is a stronger candidate for investment ...