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Moving to cloud brings financial and sustainability dividend: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... cloud. However, the Deloitte report found that few companies have transitioned to the cloud and fewer still link sustainability benefits to cloud-based transitions. The report, informed by a survey of nearly 500 businesses across Australia and New Zealand ...

AXA IM launches two sustainable funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... green bonds as at end of 2021. The fund seeks to invest in eligible green bonds with issuers that have an overall sustainability strategy consistent and aligned with green bond projects. The fund is aligned to four sub-themes of the UN Sustainable Development ...

CBA sees push to greater quantity, quality of climate risk reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s proposed climate reporting regime and the draft International Sustainability Standard Board (ISSB) could standardise climate-related disclosures across companies and assist with decision making with stakeholders ...

BNP Paribas AM launches sustainable Asia fixed income strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... Asian cities to undergo sustainable change. The regulatory environment is also moving towards requiring better sustainability disclosure requirements to facilitate capital flows towards issuers with better sustainability practices. Nonetheless, more ...

Australia's C-Suite cite climate change as chief concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... ESG risk to identifying new business opportunities, with 88% saying they are spending more resources on ESG and sustainability. "The first thing that stood out for me was really around how much more proactive and planned we're seeing leaders being ...

Ratification of Forced Labour Protocol to impact Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... any other aspect of the relationship that constitutes forced labour." ISS owns Rainmaker Group, publisher of FS Sustainability, as well as ISS ESG.

Blackmores inks $75m sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
Blackmores has refinanced $150 million of existing loan facilities and linked half of the refinancing to sustainability targets. The new sustainability linked loan agreement will incentivise Blackmores to achieving on targets including reductions of ...

ASX boards need to "quickly evolve" on ESG skills: Melior

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... skills in areas such as finance and audit, sector expertise, cybersecurity, customer and supply chain, environmental sustainability, international, social, and government relations. Melior also believes that diversity amongst board members should reflect ...

Business leaders, consumers "fed up" with ESG progress: Oracle

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022  |  NEWS
Business leaders and consumers are increasingly prioritising sustainability, but are "fed up" with lack of progress towards environmental and social goals and are looking to technology to assist in the digital transformation to achieve those goals ...

AASB considering ISSB sustainability standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022  |  NEWS
The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) is considering how to integrate climate change and sustainability-related financial accounting standards into Australian standards. AASB is consulting on the recently draft International Sustainability ...