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New nature-based team for AECOM ANZ

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... architecture. The team will comprise more than 200 technical professionals across AECOM's ANZ region and engage with First Nations groups and local communities. Cathy Crawley has been named the new nature-based solutions lead in ANZ. With over 30 years ...

Australia "on notice" as final TNFD draft framework released

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... such as investors to understand The version also comes with further guidance on engaging stakeholders, particularly First Nations communities. There is also expanded guidance on target setting in response to feedback. The guidance for financial institutions ...

ASIC issues Indigenous Financial Services Framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
ASIC has acknowledged that First Nations peoples have been "prohibited and excluded from participating in the Australian financial system," and has published an Indigenous Financial Services Framework to support positive financial outcomes for First ...

Sustainability reporting, biodiversity, social high on ASX agenda: UBS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... from race/ethnicity/age/experience as a disclosure metric that's going to be asked by investors." Engagement with First Nations communities around cultural heritage and closing the gap-related issues also featured in 2022. "We did talk about engagement ...

ASFI outlines roadmap for sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... significant harm criteria and the work strongly recommends in the Australian context, we would need to include respect for First Nations rights as well as a just and equitable transition," Graham said. "Integrating Indigenous perspectives and voices ...

Australia to introduce mandatory climate reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... be scope to grow this reporting regime to broader sustainability performance - important areas such as upholding First Nations Peoples' rights and protecting and restoring biodiversity," O'Connor said. "These matters are also front of mind for ...

Broadening impact investing - Patrice Newell

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
In this episode, we speak with Dr Patrice Newell, First Nations author, environmentalist and co-founder of Kwala, a responsible investing app that offers investors access to Australian and international companies with high environmental, social, health ...

Does Canberra's agenda align with sustainable investment?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... according to BT's head of ESG and sustainability Jessie Pettigrew. "Climate change, diversity equity and inclusion, First Nations people, biodiversity - they're all areas that a group of investors have been looking at, working on and ben interested in ...

Australian miners top list as critical minerals demand grows: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... "[The mining sector] has always had to deal with social license to operate with regard to local communities and First Nations people - some may argue that in some cases more successfully than others - but it's not new territory for them, and there ...

HESTA pushes legal alignment to UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... forward unless we properly recognise and respect our Indigenous people and communities," Cope said. Under UNDRIP, First Nations people's rights must be protected, experts have singled out the principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as ...