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Minderoo commits $9m to boost ocean impact investment

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... collaboration with fellow signatories to strengthen protection, as the foundation will continue to drive reform, accountability, and urgent humanitarian action. Spearheaded by the Australian government, the declaration seeks to mobilise global political ...

Gender diversity in corporate Australia stalling: CEW Census

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... just 10% across all ASX 300 companies. CEW president Helen Conway said the data reveals a "fundamental absence of accountability" that has allowed gender inequality to persist in corporate Australia. The census found that companies that have set gender ...

CPA calls for stricter rules on sustainability claims

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... reforms should ensure it becomes easier for Australians to make more ethical investment decisions and increases the accountability on product issuers," Viljoen said. "If a product promotes socially responsible investments, it should be clear exactly ...

Singapore pushes back climate reporting deadlines

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... said sustainability reporting is a crucial tool for companies to support their sustainability strategy and for accountability to their stakeholders. "Our differentiated implementation approach provides companies who are less ready with some relief in ...

Alliance formed to demand polluters pay their 'fair share'

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... Damage Pacific Network, Pacific Youth Network, Plan International Australia, Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research, Beyond Gas Network, Cairns and Far North Environment Centre, Conservation Council of Western Australia, Nature ...

Australia has 'incredible opportunity' to lead in clean energy: UN

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... Australia's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. "Strengthening transparency and accountability is essential to unlocking the full economic potential of climate action, here in Australia and all around the world," Stiell ...

IFM Investors launches modern slavery framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... thrives in the hidden corners of supply chains where oversight is weakest, governance structures are fragmented, and accountability often dissipates across layers of subcontracting," IFM said. The framework maps out potential exposures across industry ...

Gender diversity, overboarding top of mind for instos: Georgeson

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... the main reasons for voting against directors. The other reasons were not having a majority independent board and accountability votes against the chair or chair of the nomination committee if the company has a lack of gender diversity. One noteworthy ...

Former board member kickstarts crowdfunding for CalPERS probe

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... billion in assets. "In an era when public trust in government institutions is increasingly fragile, transparency and accountability are more essential than ever. Nowhere is this truer than in the management of public pensions. The financial lifeline ...

BlackRock, Vanguard bankroll 'genocide', illegal occupation: UN

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... testing ground for arms manufacturers and big tech - providing boundless supply and demand, little oversight and zero accountability - while investors and private and public institutions profit freely. Too many influential corporate entities remain inextricably ...