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Australia ranks 13th on gender parity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... healthcare and care services (58.5%) and education (52.9%). They remain underrepresented in infrastructure, oil, gas and mining, and utilities. From an income perspective, at the aggregate level, high-income economies have closed 74.3% of their gender ...

Active Super to pay $10.5m for greenwashing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... misleading members about its ESG credentials purported to eliminate investments in Russian companies and others involved in mining and tobacco, the Federal Court determined. Justice O'Callaghan said it is not disputed that the super fund's "contraventions ...

Podcast: Harnessing synthetic biology for sustainable mining and pollution mitigation

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Allonnia's work in accelerating nature's process of breaking down contaminants like PFAS, and its initiatives in the mining sector to reduce waste and greenhouse gas emissions. The episode highlights Allonnia's partnerships in Australia ...

EV boom fuels lithium surge, but risks are significant

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... lithium market is expected to be valued in the tens of billions of dollars, attracting investment from both established mining companies and emerging start-ups. Investment trends suggest that companies investing in sustainable and innovative extraction ...

Weak whistleblowing protocols risks ethicswashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... and procedures in place. Since the reforms, whistleblower reports nearly tripled from 278 to 817, according to ASIC. The mining sector is particularly at risk. Mining operations involve multi-billion-dollar projects, equipment, and contracts, often located ...

Local family office backs new venture to invest in climate tech

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... offshore wind, the current environment remains positive. We are focused on energy, transport and heavy industry, including mining. These sectors align very well with fundamental and bipartisan thematics around energy security, domestic manufacturing ...

Regulation drives ESG advice boom

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... with service providers across their initiatives. Energy management systems are in high demand across the heavy emitters: mining, power and utilities, manufacturing and transportation. However, most of Australia is still lagging on sustainability - unless ...

Investors slam dumping of nature positive laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Labor's 'Nature Positive' plan has been shelved after pushback from West Australian Premier Roger Cook and the mining industry. Labor will now not try to negotiate the passage of the bill to create a new federal Environment Protection Agency (EPA). ...

ESG pay skyrockets - but gap widens

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... roles every two years or less. Finance, banking and insurance are not the highest paying sectors - that title belongs to mining, metals and resources. And passion drives the workforce - people are choosing roles based on 'interesting' and 'meaningful' ...

TNFD adds to sector guidance, scores funding

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... prepare. It brings the total number of sectors for which the TNFD provides guidance to 13 so far. The others are metals and mining; electric utilities and power generation; finance; chemicals; food and agriculture; oil and gas; forestry, pulp and paper ...