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"Looming" governance gap as reporting becomes mandatory

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... experience. ESG is becoming embedded into commercial decision-making, but a "looming" skills gap remains a challenge at the board level, the Action Exchange finds. With mandatory climate-related reporting slated for 2024-2028, it is critical to address ...

Assessing companies ability to make the low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... and processes. Australian supporters of TPI include Aware and HESTA. TPI was co-founded by the Church of England Pension Board and Environment Agency Pension Fund, in partnership with the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... organisations "to make high quality, comparable and useful climate disclosures based on the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards" - a significantly greater level of detailed disclosures than current reporting practices, which ...

Brookfield ups the ante on Origin by $1.2bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... higher than the top of the valuation range identified in the Independent Expert's Report and is endorsed by the Origin Board." Origin's largest shareholder, AustralianSuper, announced it would vote against the revised takeover bid on the grounds ...

Investors press Boral for clarity on net zero ambitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Investors participating in the Climate Action 100+ engagement with Boral, a list participant, have sent a letter to Boral's board after the company announced that it was walking back its 2025 commitment to reducing emissions from 18% to 12-14%. Australian ...

Role for finance after No vote

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... associates are starting to view a lack of racial diversity as a credit risk, and NASDAQ has implied policy positions for racial board representation. "We're at a time where there has never been greater attention on First Nations equality among regulators ...

Farm to table reporting to increase ag investment certainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... to strengthen sustainability metrics data in the sector comes from a new partnership between government-founded statutory board AgriFutures Australia and sustainability consultancy Lifecycles. The project, which will broaden the Australian Life Cycle ...

Investors call for multilateral financial architecture overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... net-zero programmes by accelerating the reform of existing financial and investment policy frameworks," NZAOA chair and board member of Allianz SE Günther Thallinger said. "As we head towards at least 2.4°C warming with current climate pledges, we ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... first focus on climate-related financial reporting, under an exposure draft released by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). AASB has opened up a 120-day comment period on ASRS 1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Climate-related Financial ...

NSW Anti-slavery commissioner raises alarm on ASX risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
ASX-listed companies have a higher level of forced labour risk in their operations than other developed countries, according to the NSW independent anti-slavery commissioner. Speaking at the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) Phil ...