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COP28: Australia signs Glasgow statement to end public finance for fossil fuels

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Australia said. Michelle Higelin, executive director at ActionAid Australia said the CETP "is a first step to supporting women and communities facing the devastating impacts of the climate crisis. "In recent years, Australia has funnelled up to one-fifth ...

Australia joins COP28 gender and just transition partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Partnership, which will focus on supporting women's economic empowerment during the transition to a low climate global economy. Women and the just transition The partnership was announced during Gender Equality Day at COP28. The partnership will ...

RIAA names Responsible Investment Super Leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... management and diversity. Board representation is still majoritarian men - in 2022, 58% of the 469 trustees were men and 42% were women, a less than 2% increase in the number of women trustees since 2020. "More than a third (38%) of the 53 super funds ...

Gender pay gap a key diversity metric: FSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... level/commitment to gender diversity and a large pay gap "may point to underlying gender discrimination, or unconscious bias against women in the organisation," FSI said. "It is one data point that you would use to look at the culture of a company, at ...

Slow progress on human rights in business

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... human rights performance, while the Gender Benchmark assessed how companies are driving and promoting gender equality and women's empowerment across their supply chain. For the gender benchmark, WBA assessed 112 companies from the apparel and food and ...

Workplace conduct a financial risk: Fidelity International

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... sector. "If you're invested across 10 companies and the whole sector has been penalized for, say, sexual harassment, fewer women will want to work at any one company," Jaramillo said. "They're afraid of the bad reputation. If that's the case ...

Australian Ethical backs infrastructure debt funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has allocated more than $100 million to two infrastructure debt funds that provide finance to renewable energy and social infrastructure projects. Australian Ethical has backed the Infradebt Ethical Fund and the Infradebt Energy Transition ...

Two-thirds of boards lack ESG understanding: PwC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... than $1 billion. 64% of respondents served on their board for over five years. The study respondents were 72% men and 28% women. The survey also found that boards may be overconfident in their crisis preparedness. 96% of directors are confident their ...

Legal changes put sexual harassment on par with workplace safety

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... smaller mining companies, mining services, and companies across other sectors are most likely not as prepared. The National Women's Safety Association (NWSA) director Katherine Berney said the new rules also improve accessibility to information for underrepresented ...

HESTA releases 2023 AGM hit list

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... chairs of companies employing single-gender executive leadership teams. Its long-term goal is a 40:40:20 gender balance (40% women, 40% men, and 20% any gender) at both board and executive levels. HESTA will also engage on issues related to job security ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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