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Directors welcome new climate reporting regime

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and Other Measures) Bill was introduced to the House of Representatives. "Our changes will establish Australia's climate risk disclosure framework, giving investors and companies the transparency ...

Super battle on impact investing and returns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... investment, without compromising financial return for members, campaigners argue. It will take its case to the House of Representatives by the end of the year. "We believe that impact investing can be a powerful tool to address the social and environmental ...

Nature Market Repair Bill: why some farmers oppose biodiversity offsets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... farmers. Fifty-four percent opposed offsets and 30% were not sure. The Nature Repair Market Bill passed the House of Representatives this month but was opposed at the second reading stage by the Coalition, the Greens and Zoe Daniel. The Coalition have ...

RBA governor urges implementation of ISSB standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... expectations, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe has said. In testifying at Parliament at the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics last week, Lowe was asked how Australia compares to international peers on climate disclosures ...

Ratification of Forced Labour Protocol to impact Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... modern slavery," the ban on goods produced by forced labour that has been passed by the Senate but not the House of Representatives, and remediation for victims of modern slavery. There have been calls for the federal government to create the position ...

Greenwashing key concern as Ethical Advisers Co-op passes $2bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... EAC reported that its Public Policy group has engaged on this issue, writing directly to members of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics to voice concern about the prevalence of greenwashing and to call for the tightening of regulation ...

Assessing buy now pay later sector through an ESG lens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... Commonwealth Bank of Australia is launching its own BNPL offering from mid-2021, and CBA CEO Matt Comyn told the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in mid-April that the bank will perform credit background checks before extending ...

Opinion: Australian super funds could benefit from US ESG policy move

RAEWYN WILLIAMS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... retirement benefits to fund members. The regulator is holding the line despite a recent grilling by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics for its prudential focus on climate change risk and hiring of a Head of Climate Risk. In ...

Senate rejects CPM repeal, business calculates liabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... proposed eliminating the carbon price mechanism (CPM) and replace it with the Direct Action Plan (DAP). The House of Representatives, which is held by the Liberal Coalition led by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, had passed the government's Clean Energy (Carbon ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... when Parliament reconvenes in November. However, while the Liberal government holds the majority in the House of Representatives, it does not hold the majority in the Senate, and the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens have said they will ...
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