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Preparing for COP28: nature and climate integration

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... integration of nature and climate in reporting. Evan Center, an expert in environment and climate change with the United Nations Global Compact Network Australia (UNGCNA), has seen a notable surge in interest in nature and climate reporting and compliance. ...

Investors press Boral for clarity on net zero ambitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Boral to keep its 2030 target to limit Scope 1 and 2 in line with the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Race to Zero. For its part, Boral says it revised its 2025 target "to reflect what ...

Role for finance after No vote

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... 92 calls on companies to integrate Indigenous interests in their planning processes with FPIC and applying the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a reconciliation framework going forward. The First Nations Major Projects ...

Investors call for multilateral financial architecture overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... transitioning their investment portfolios to net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. Paris-aligned NZAOA is convened by United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and Principles for Responsible Investment, and is supported by World Wide Fund for ...

Successful merger for social and inequality reporting framework

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... Shift, and other investor and labour-focused organizations. TIFD was led by an interim secretariat including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Predistribution Initiative (PDI), Argentine Network for International Cooperation (RACI) ...

New code of practice to mitigate slavery risks in renewables

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... metallurgical grade silicon, key components in photovoltaic solar panels, are produced in Xinjiang, China - where the United Nations has identified evidence of state-sponsored forced labour. The production of key components of lithium-ion batteries is ...

Morgan Stanley reaches 70% of $1tn sustainable finance goal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Morgan Stanley's Sustainable Finance Framework is maintained by the Global Sustainability Office and considers the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and industry frameworks and standards such as the International Capital Markets Association's' ...

Fidelity creates chief sustainability role, plus new chairs for IPCC and PRI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... valued and heard," Skea said in his address to delegates at the IPCC's 59th Session held at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. This was the first IPCC election with women candidates running for the position. ...

Executive appointment roundup: Corporate Citizenship to DBS, UNHCR to TBI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... value. He will report to chief sustainability officer Helge Muenkel starting on 31 July. Ann Moey has left the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees after three and a half years to join the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change as Asia philanthropy ...

Offshore windfarms offer co-benefits

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... fisheries are currently pushd beyond their biological limits, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. "The introduction of this hard substrate could also have other potential advantages," said PhD candidate and lead ...