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Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... companies the results can be costly and difficult, and with new legal requirements coming into force investors must follow global best practice. He said that on human rights ESG research should not be limited to modern slavery, because that definition ...

Hybrid working can reduce carbon emissions by up to 90%

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... hours, which eventually improve their work-life balance and benefit their mental wellbeing. The latest research from IWG, a global flexible workspace provider, and Arup, a UK-based multinational professional services firm, measured the environmental ...

UN Global Compact Network Australia hires executive director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2023  |  NEWS
The UN Global Compact Network Australia (UNGCNA) has hired a new executive director, recruiting from the Victorian government. Kate Dundas will take up the role of executive director, joining UNGCNA from Sustainability Victoria, where she was acting ...

CEFC invests $75m in Queensland recycling facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... that the new facility "will help address the under-developed C&D recycling sector in Southeast Queensland, using leading global recycling technology by Turmec from Ireland and CDE from Northern Ireland." Less than a third of all construction and demolition ...

Government to fund sustainable finance taxonomy development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... that by moving to develop a sustainable finance taxonomy, the Australian finance sector is shifting into alignment with global peers, which will underpin investment, lending and underwriting decisions. "This is a hugely significant milestone for the ...

Modern slavery on the rise 10 years after Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... buildings, and there is evidence that it's made factories in Bangladesh safer places to work," said First Sentier Investors global head of responsible investment Kate Turner. "It is good to see that collaboration across suppliers, brands and unions ...

Sustainability is facing a data crisis: new research

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... greenwashing is accidental, and that better tools and systems are needed to improve their measurement. This comes as a new global IBM Institute for Business Value study of executives and consumers, "The ESG ultimatum: Profit or perish," reinforces that ...

Podcast: Impact investing - from rethink to redefine and reallocate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
We're joined by Nuveen global head of impact private equity Rekha Unnithan. Impact investing and the ability to invest to achieve real world social and environmental outcomes as well financial returns is a hot topic in investing, and Unnithan brings ...

South Korea leads with ESG fund disclosure taskforce and anti-greenwash laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... and are set to be released in the first half of 2023. The aim is to help create an ESG investment environment that meets global standards by resolving investor information asymmetry while preventing greenwashing and inducing responsible management. This ...

Amundi launches suite of Net Zero funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... is to invest in companies "best to support the transition of the economy to a low carbon model, enabling us to reach the global objective of Net Zero1 by 2050." Amundi defines net zero as "when emissions resulting from human activity are balanced globally ...