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Standards boards unite for global rollout

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation is working with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to make their standards more compatible. The partnership between the IFRS - which oversees the International Sustainability Standards ...

Podcast: Disability inclusion - the missing piece of ESG investing with Corene Strauss

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Around one in six (18%) people in Australia live with a disability - around 4.4 million people - and roughly 90% of those have 'invisible' or 'hidden' disabilities. Australians living with a disability have so much to offer organisations. ...

Accountants say digital is key

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Digitally integrating climate and financial reporting may help circumvent the challenges entities face meeting Australia's looming reporting rules, argue Deloitte and PwC. Mandatory climate reporting in Australia is set to come into force from this ...

Fossil fuel funding down 20pc: study

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Financing for fossil fuel companies has fallen sharply overall since the Paris Agreement was inked in 2016 but progress among the world's top banks has been mixed. The world's 60 largest banks, including Australia's Big Four banks, committed US$6.9 ...

The 50 most influential ESG corporate professionals in Australia named

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
The 50 most influential environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) professionals working at ASX-listed companies have been named by trade publication FS Sustainability in the 2024 ESG Power50 guide. Running for the second year, the ESG Power50 ...

Stewardship resources should double

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Stewardship is under-resourced as investors grapple with assessing how organisations align with the ambitions of clients and beneficiaries. Resources dedicated to the values of responsible planning and management of an organisation, need to double as ...

Men, women in same occupation drive pay gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
A whopping 80% of the gender pay gap can be attributed to women being paid less than men within the same occupation, a new economic analysis shows. After analysing tax data, economic research organisation E61 Institute compared men and women of similar ...

Companies warned to disclose nature risks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Organisations must assess their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities and disclose their findings to all stakeholders. Nature-related dependencies pose material financial risks for organisations, Tony Goldner, executive director ...

On biodiversity, a 143-year-old museum comes to the rescue

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
In the quest for impeccable biodiversity data, a trillion-dollar fund manager found an unlikely partner in a 143-year-old museum best known for 'Dippy', the dinosaur. At the RIAA conference yesterday, a panel was assembled to talk about the ...

Disability inclusion is a financial issue

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Following the ramping up of focus on gender, racial and ethnic, and LGBTQI+ inclusion in organisations, disability inclusion has emerged as the missing puzzle piece in the campaign for better diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). There are 4.4 million ...