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Podcast: AI and the human capital paradox

THE GREENER WAY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026  |  NEWS
AI, Workplace Culture and Labor Rights: Why human capital risk is financially material This week on The Greener Way, host Michelle Baltazar speaks with Emily DeMasi, regional team lead - North America EOS at Federated Hermes, about why human capital ...

ASIC flags disclosure flaws in mandatory climate reports

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2026  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has raised concerns over the use of misleading disclaimers, inconsistent climate risk disclosures and unclear reporting assumptions in the first round of mandatory sustainability reports lodged ...

Financial services 'structurally behind' on calculating climate-related risks

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2026  |  NEWS
Although financial services firms have formed "solid" governance structures to acknowledge climate-related risks, the action taken on them tells a very different story, a new analysis shows. Sustainability consultancy ERM has analysed 33 disclosures ...

Australia expects AI developers to support energy transition

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
The Australian government said it expects artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure developers to support its national interests and energy transition plans. These expectations come after the release of the government's National AI Plan in December ...

Advocacy groups challenge SEC policy on shareholder proposals

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is being sued over a new policy that gives companies "an effective rubber-stamp" to omit shareholder proposals in company proxy statements. As You Sow and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility ...

Green moves: Airtree Ventures, Westpac

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
Sarah Minahan, formerly of Australian venture capital firm Airtree Ventures, has left the firm to establish Eskala, a specialist advisory focused on social risk and human rights. Eskala will work with clients to embed human rights considerations into ...

SEC criticises proxy adviser 'oligopoly,' urges AI use

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has slammed the oligopolistic nature of the proxy adviser industry and floated the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to upend their stronghold. Brian Daly, the director of the SEC's division ...

CEF calls out Whitehaven Coal over rising emissions

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Whitehaven Coal's growing coal mining operations in Australia are pushing its methane and fuel emissions up, raising concerns over its long-term climate liability, according to a new report. CarbonBridge and Climate Energy Finance (CEF) released the ...

Corporate culture

JOANNA NASH, WANG WEI  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Corporate culture is a powerful dynamic in a company. It is the set of beliefs and attitudes about the way things are done in an organisation or, more formally, the "set of values and norms widely shared and firmly held by members of an organisation". ...

Improvements needed in modern slavery disclosures: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Monash University's Business School released the Modern Slavery Disclosure Quality Ratings ASX100 Companies Update 2025 report about how Australian companies are reporting on modern slavery in their supply chains. The annual assessment by Monash Centre ...
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