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Consultancies jump on skills gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... firms in January. "With the new climate law in Australia, the evolving regulations, like the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, and a dynamic global ESG landscape, organisations must demonstrate transparency, attract responsible investors ...

Investors must take a long-term view: Robeco

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... EU Green Agenda, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the directive on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) are critical. Robeco believes net zero initiatives will follow the same pattern as most learning curves: an initial peak ...

Coalition plans to scrap climate reporting

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... success. "Businesses decide what is material to their business. These companies have already invested in sustainability reporting, and they are unlikely to stop," Higgins said. "While today's challenges may temporarily slow momentum, they will also shape ...

Green moves: Warakirri, La Trobe Financial, Future Generation, Tracker Group, GRI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... three-year term that commenced January 1. The GSSB set the world's first globally accepted standards for sustainability reporting. Canada-based Cho teaches sustainability accounting at New York University and is one of two academics alongside Melbourne-based ...

ESG pay skyrockets - but gap widens

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... professionals, with high levels of stress, burnout and isolation. Alarmingly, 37% are not prepared for sustainability reporting - and half still rely on spreadsheets for ESG data capture. "Climate change [and] net zero, and reporting and disclosures ...

Auditors tighten fist on greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA). The interoperable standards mark "an important evolution in global sustainability reporting and assurance," IAASB chair Tom Seidenstein said. There are two new directives: IAASB's International Standard on ...

ASIC calls for feedback on disclosure regime

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... comply with the new requirement, the corporate watchdog this week released a draft Regulatory Guide 000 Sustainability reporting (Draft RG 000). Essentially, the draft explains who must prepare a sustainability report, how the regime will interact with ...

Is 'nature positive' the next big thing?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... introduce national regulations to support this goal. Once the ISSB completes its work on nature-related sustainability reporting, countries are expected to incorporate the TNFD framework or similar nature-disclosure standards into reporting requirements. ...

Equality backslides for first time

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... will help the TISFD with scalability and market readiness, ensuring consistency between EFRAG's EU Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and TISFD's global framework. The goal is to highlight social inequality as a material risk and encourage ...

Regulators to clamp down harder on greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... effective. The report showed that the UK has the strictest rules on anti-greenwashing and entity-level sustainability reporting, with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) introducing a rule requiring firms' sustainability claims to be fair, clear ...