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Business calls for 12-month climate reporting delay

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... private litigators, in addition to civil society. FS Sustainability understands that Treasury will be introducing legislation on climate reporting in the near future. Climate-related financial disclosures are set to become mandatory for large entities ...

Tracking nature: finance lags on biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... bees, butterflies and hoverflies from pesticides, pollution, land use change, climate change and invasive species. The legislation has been hotly contested. Farmers have protested a range of policies designed to protect nature, which they say they cannot ...

Family businesses see ESG driving future: Grant Thornton

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... regulation and 23% cited resourcing, skills and experience as an impediment. ESG beyond climate reporting The proposed legislation on mandatory climate-related financial disclosures is not on the radar of most family businesses that Pogson works with. ...

Dramatic spike in votes against ASX remuneration: Georgeson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... happens when 25% or more shareholder votes are cast against the adoption of the board's remuneration report. Under legislation, if a listed company gets two strike votes in consecutive years at AGM, shareholders can then vote to spill the board, requiring ...

Investors back modern slavery compensation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... victim-survivors of human trafficking, slavery, forced marriage and forced labour. In December the federal government introduced legislation to establish a Federal Anti-Slavery Commissioner. "The Anti-Slavery Commissioner Bill 2023 is a landmark reform ...

ESG skills in hot demand in risk, compliance hiring

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... around disclosing fees and costs in PDSs and period statements, the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) Bill of2022, legislation driving fund retirement support, ASIC and ACCC's focus on greenwashing, and APRA's updates to SPS and CPS 230 and 530 - ...

Aussie investors prepare for new EU rules

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... do business in the region. The new laws may cause a ripple-on effect that could influence Australian sustainability legislation. "We often see EU laws being adopted as the standard setter globally, and in this way this directive will influence the development ...

Closing Loopholes legislation

ALICIA MATAERE  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
The Fair Work Legislative Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 has been split, with the first part of the Bill passing the Senate on 7 December 2023 and receiving Royal Assent on 14 December 2023 to come into force as part of the Fair Work Legislative ...

Guide to identify and manage modern slavery for NSW entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... modern slavery risks applicable to the more than 400 NSW public entities that fall under that state's modern slavery legislation. The Guidance on Reasonable Steps to Manage Modern Slavery Risks in Operations and Supply-Chains outlines the steps that ...

Podcast: Banking on the future with Australia's green bank

THE GREENER WAY  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... since Anthony Albanese's Labor government came to power in May 2022, with further activities across regulators, legislation and industry outlined. As part of the strategy, the government prosed that the CEFC will the delivery of the strategy by "expanding ...