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Universities jump on ESG skills shortage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... two-decade career as a practising lawyer at Johnson Winter & Slattery. The new course covers the energy transition, modern slavery, and corporate responses to social and environmental challenges. With a rise in greenwashing litigation, the course is ...

Regulation drives ESG advice boom

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Entities with a consolidated revenue of at least $100 million in a financial year are also required to report on modern slavery. To make the deadline, firms are turning to digital solutions. "Progressive companies in Australia have started to change ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... food product issuers in Nature Action 100 with operations linked to Indonesia, 53% of issuers carried significant modern slavery and human rights risks. "Nature data architecture at the asset level is growing, while nature-based solutions practices ...

Most popular podcast episodes of 2024

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Australia (BCSDA) ESG regulation is evolving fast. Whether it's mandatory sustainability-related reporting, modern slavery regulations, or circular economy laws, what exactly do practitioners need to know? Listen here. 7. The economic case for being ...

ASX100 slavery disclosure strong

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... including the big banks Westpac, National Australian Bank, ANZ and CommBank, scored the highest marks on their modern slavery report, but several trailed behind including Janus Henderson, Harvey Norman and Block. Research on Australian companies' ...

Supermarket giants lead anti-slavery efforts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Pacific (IAST APAC) published its annual report this week highlighting investor engagements with companies against modern slavery in company operations and supply chains. The coalition was launched four years ago with founding investor members First ...

Ausbil steps up slavery crackdown

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... up to help meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7 of ending slavery by 2030. According to CEO Mark Knight, modern slavery has long been a key focus of Ausbil's ESG efforts - both eradication and rehabilitation of those impacted. "Ausbil has been ...

Nature and climate now on equal footing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... meantime? Meanwhile, Parker warns investors to "assess and address" nature risks, keeping interconnected issues like modern slavery and Indigenous rights in mind. "We are likely to soon see some kind of shadow pricing by investors to recognise ecosystem ...

Offloading assets is last resort in fight against slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... as well as an exploration of the investor's potential role alongside other actors in the process," Hazra said. Modern slavery may be present in every country and supply chain in the world, according to Walk Free director of business and human rights ...

Modern slavery: Time for more action

MANS CARLSSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
There is little evidence that Australia's Modern Slavery Act 2018 (MSA) has helped reduce the prevalence of modern slavery. The MSA was the first national legislation in the world to define modern slavery. The Act defines modern slavery as eight types ...