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AI poses serious governance risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
Super funds could be left footing the bill of listed companies that are quick to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) systems but slow to grasp the governance risks when the technology fails. Professor Nicholas Davis, a leading academic on emerging technologies ...

AI trumps climate as chief risk factor: economists

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... extreme weather were widely discussed in Davos, misinformation and disinformation arising from generative artificial intelligence were now ranked as the most severe risks. "Once you took inflation out of the picture, we were seeing green, everything ...

Australia climbs quickly on climate policy development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... integration, legislative compliance, consolidated reporting, supply chain due diligence and ramping up of artificial intelligence tools. Experts commented that Australia has been slow to adopt climate policies. "Australia has lagged international peers ...

ESG in 2024: key trends and legislative changes for the year ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... integration, consolidated reporting, legislative compliance, supply chain due diligence, and managing artificial intelligence. In the face of escalating anti-ESG rhetoric, industry leaders continued to power ahead with efforts for a greener and more ...

Agriculture funding takes the stage at COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... for forestry, land and agriculture, that new technologies in climate reporting and management such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are a key part of transitioning today's activities into tomorrow's goals." "What we're able to ...

Data centre operator refinances multi-billion-dollar sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... almost 1.38GW of capacity and is growing at a rapid pace to address customer demand for public cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, AirTrunk said. AirTrunk has now raised over A$6 billion in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) financing ...

How investors manage risk in a new AI world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
In an era marked by the rapid ascent of generative artificial intelligence (AI), investors can potentially reap the rewards from a plethora of efficiency-maximising opportunities to automate core business processes in the companies they invest in. But ...

Report sounds alarm on data centre climate risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, the strong growth in demand for data, including the use of artificial intelligence, points to future potential increases to energy consumption of data centre services. Accordign to the ISF report ...

AI and ESG: risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is already rapidly disrupting various industries, speeding up processes and making fast work of huge amounts of data, and investors and businesses need to analyse the material ESG risks and opportunities of ...

Risk management to grow in importance: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... expected to be the three key drivers of change in 2025, according to the study, but by 2030, climate change, artificial intelligence and business continuity and resilience are expected to dominate. "One of the key lessons we're learning out of a variety ...