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New EU rules at the border and beyond

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Stay ahead of new EU sustainability rules at the border and beyond: World-first European Green Bond standard, EU launches Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) slated for 2024. World-first European ...

Corporates to begin adopting final TNFD recommendations

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... option and business and finance can no longer consider nature and biodiversity as just a corporate social responsibility (CSR) issue. It is now squarely a central and strategic risk management issue." Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia ...

Robeco defines key business sustainability impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
Global fund manager Robeco has identified climate change, biodiversity, social rights and ESG data quality as material issues that pose both financial materiality and impact materiality in their operations. Robeco has released its sustainability report ...

ISSB to unlock sustainable capital: IFRS exec

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... said. The Oration has previously been delivered by speakers including Maryna Saprykina, chief of Ukraine's Centre for CSR Development, Peter Bakker, chief executive of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Maria Atkinson, then chief ...

Critical talent shortage could stall net zero progress: Hays

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... white-collar side, there are shortages in human resources and organisational development and many of those departments might have CSR for example within the portfolio. "Then again, right up through the C suite and board representation where it's still ...

Vontobel to assess biodiversity impacts of portfolio investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... which we think of as a tier 1 approach? Is it something where it reports into the CEO or the CFO? Is it pushed down to the CSR group, which we would view as tier three?" The analysis will allow Vontobel to establish a baseline of the companies from the ...

Improve ESG data, analytics to enhance decisions: SAS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... South Asia and ANZ at SAS. SAS is a business analytics software and service provider. "I think the key challenge in the ESG/CSR space is the lack of measurements, because data is disparate and there isn't consideration given to the external factors ...

New firm to address nature-based solution market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... growing global demand for high integrity nature-based solutions to support business climate and corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies. It is co-founded by Point Advisory and Biodiverse Carbon, a subsidiary of Greening Australia NatureCo will ...

Australian Retailers Association appoints director of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... social responsibility and sustainability. He also worked for NBN Co where he led the development of a strategic framework for CSR. Prior to that, he worked with SMBs, owner operators and franchisees in Australia's dynamic food retail sector. ARA CEO ...

Hedge funds integrating ESG: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... participants incorporate sustainability into the operations of their management companies, but no respondents tied sustainability and CSR targets with remuneration. When it comes to the stakeholders driving ESG strategies in the fund, 67% cite organisation ...