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Ethical funds get picky as carbon bakes into AI-heavy benchmarks

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2026  |  NEWS
... environmental footprint of AI infrastructure is a material investment consideration for us," Australian Ethical chief impact and ethics officer Alison George said. "Energy use associated with AI workloads is growing rapidly, and companies that cannot ...

CBA faces shareholder revolt over deforestation risk

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2026  |  NEWS
... practices risk losing market access. This risk extends to the bank financing these customers." Australian Ethical impact and ethics analyst Bonnie Graham said CBA's lending to landholders involved in deforestation was increasingly difficult to reconcile ...

Podcast: Greenwashing 2.0 - The next big risk

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2026  |  NEWS
... evolved 02:49 - Sustainability moves into finance, governance and risk teams 03:30 - The evolution of greenwashing from ethics to regulation 04:33 - Why boards are paying closer attention 06:16 - The impact of mandatory climate reporting 08:00 - Can ...

Performance incentives may undermine honesty: Study

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2026  |  NEWS
... some cases, deliver better organisational outcomes than performance-bases incentives. Published in the Journal of Business Ethics, the paper by UTS associate professor Gordon Menzies and professor Isa Hafalir revisits the long-established principal-agent ...

AI-washing and cyber-washing

JAMES NORTH, FRIEDA CHAN, EUGENIA KOLIVOS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2026  |  NEWS
... gap between the proliferation of AI and a lack of legislation, in November 2019 the Government released Australia's AI Ethics Principles, a voluntary framework intended to prompt organisations to use AI-enabled systems in a safe, secure and reliable ...

Australian investors prioritising returns over ethics: Data

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2026  |  NEWS
Ethical investing has lost significant ground among Australia's self-directed investors with new data from Sharesight pointing to a sharp decline in ESG-focused holdings since 2021. Analysis of the platform's top 250 most traded investments show ESG ...

Green moves: Airtree Ventures, Westpac

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
... on human rights and social impact. Speaking of the thinking behind Eskala, Minahan is direct. "You can call it business ethics, social responsibility, business and human rights, the 'S' in ESG, or social risk and impact," she says. "But quite ...

Green moves: Mercer, Northern Trust AM

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
... of you, but this resulted in better applying our minds to complexity, using the best science, modelling, mindset, data, ethics, and analysis. I learned resilience is worthwhile." Meanwhile, David Humphreys has joined Northern Trust Asset Management to ...

Mercer's Helga Birgden departs after 18 years

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
... of you, but this resulted in better applying our minds to complexity, using the best science, modelling, mindset, data, ethics, and analysis. I learned resilience is worthwhile."

ESG regulations have significantly shifted: Australian Ethical

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... regulatory landscape towards ESG and climate reporting requirements in the last 12 months, Australian Ethical chief impact and ethics officer Alison George said the industry had been going through a period of change. "The big changes happened the year ...
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