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How to build a climate-resilient business: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... require broad cooperation and collaboration across the public, private, and financial sectors. Our experience shows that boards, along with company management and investors, expect public-private partnerships to play a more prevalent role in addressing ...

Preparing to take advantage of the critical mineral story

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... comprise portfolios for members and clients are managing risk well," Boele said. "So much of that is about remuneration, boards and those types of things, and more recently, managing exposures and pricing carbon. "Everyone has to get behind the government ...

Two-thirds of boards lack ESG understanding: PwC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Just one-third of corporate boards have a strong understanding of ESG risks affecting their companies, just a quarter report a robust sense of carbon emissions and even less of their company's climate risk or strategy. Half (51%) of directors say their ...

Investing in net zero "makes business sense": Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australia, it may be getting there. With government commitments to bring in mandatory climate disclosure forcing company boards to plan for how to comply with standards, and investors engaging with emissions intensive companies with the aim of working ...

Mandatory climate reporting challenges directors: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... around the expert advisory sector broadly and given that the shift is so fundamental, it will have to be a high priority for boards and management teams." Voluntary disclosure of climate risk is improving for Australian companies, but is still not universal. ...

HESTA releases 2023 AGM hit list

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... discrimination, and gender imbalance in leadership, with a goal for gender balance in ASX 300 leadership structures, including boards and executive teams, by 2030. For the upcoming voting season, HESTA will oppose select director re-elections at ASX ...

Australian businesses failing to achieve on sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... teams that I'm coming across are drowning in the regulatory requirements, let alone the voluntary ones," Smith said. "Boards and executives are trying to cascade their targets down to the general manager level. To give a live example, one of the ...

Investors call for leadership diversity at ASX300 listed companies

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... issue within the next 12 months. A recent survey of investors found more than 90% of respondents currently engage with boards on gender diversity topics, while three in four are voting for diversity at board level. To amend this, investors are engaging ...

How investors manage risk in a new AI world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... optimisation. But these opportunities are "not yet fully realised". As AI represents a new frontier for organisations, boards and management must seek to balance potential upside with consideration of responsible business concepts like "good intention" ...

Standard Chartered Bank gets first head of social sustainability

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... complementary areas of focus important to our stakeholders across our footprint markets," Drew commented. Natalie sits on several boards and committees focused on women's economic empowerment and is also a member of the Milken Institute's Young Leader's ...