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Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... an international non-profit on a mission to end overfishing that set voluntary standards for sustainable fishing and assurance within the seafood supply chain. While the non-profit focuses on environmental, science-based criteria, it also condemns forced ...

Australia "on notice" as final TNFD draft framework released

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... existing standards with the aim to be science-based yet accessible and practical for annual reporting and on a limited assurance basis. The framework includes three tiers of leading indicators: Core Global Disclosure Metrics - relevant broadly to the ...

Leading Harvest launches Australian ag sustainability standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Leading Harvest is implementing a sustainability assurance program for the Australian agriculture sector after a successful pilot backed by Warakirri Asset Management among others. Leading Harvest is a non-profit that has developed the Farmland Management ...

Chubb Review recommends reforms to ACCU governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... more independent Carbon Abatement Integrity Committee (CAIC) with a full-time chair to replace the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC), the separation of governance, ACCU purchasing and method development functions currently administered by ...

Less than 20% of ASX200 disclose financial impacts of climate risk: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... have disclosed Net Zero commitments need to put in more detail than they're currently putting in," said PwC Australia assurance leader Kristin Stubbins. "That's the key thing for me - if you're putting a plan out around Net Zero, you need a lot of robust ...

ESG drivers rising up M&A strategy agenda: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... that potential sellers with "genuine ESG credentials have much to gain from comprehensive and transparent reporting and assurance," PwC said. "Data is the crux of driving value from ESG," Chadha said. "That is really the bottom line and one of the biggest ...

Bank Australia taps NAB executive as chief impact officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... was the executive director of the London-based ISEAL Alliance, the global association for sustainability standards and assurance systems. She has also worked as an international consultant on social justice and environmental sustainability issues, and ...

Leading Harvest to bring ag sustainability standard to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... and Kilter Rural will take part in a pilot program that will bring an agriculture and food production sustainability assurance program to Australia. Leading Harvest is a non-profit that has developed the Farmland Management Standard, which standardises ...

SGX mandates TCFD, diversity reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability, and sustainability reports to be issued together with annual reports unless issuers have conducted external assurance. These requirements follow a public consultation on both sustainability reporting and board diversity disclosures which ...

Failing to manage ESG a severe risk to business: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... doing the things people expect you to do," Mabbott explained. "There will be a requirement to have a similar level of assurance over ESG statements as you do over your financial statements in some way shape or form." It won't just be regulators and investors ...