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ISSB digital standards not perfect

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) recently published its much-awaited digital taxonomy, to help investors navigate sustainability disclosures. The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Sustainability Disclosure Taxonomy ...

Subsidiaries must comply with Aussie regime

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Inbound Australian subsidiaries of international groups must comply with the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS), even if they already make disclosures under foreign regimes, EY finds. Alexandra Banks, partner at EY, climate change ...

Member accuses UniSuper of greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Sustainable High Growth options as noted on our website and in our PDS. We see Transurban as having strong business standards and practices as well as a considered approach to environmental, social and governance issues." "In our 2023 Climate report ...

Plibersek threatens circularity laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... and sector-based circular economy targets. There is also a new report out from CSIRO on developing circular economy standards for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region. Canberra is setting up Environment Information Australia to streamline education ...

Companies warned to disclose nature risks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... frameworks, building on the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures, and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) S1 and S2. Last week the ISSB announced it will commence work on nature-related reporting requirements, drawing ...

Younger members drive demand

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... CoreData found that the number one reason financial advisers find it hard to recommend ESG investments is the inconsistent standards, metrics and taxonomies in the industry. "This is something that we feel RIAA does a really good job on - bringing some ...

Greenwashing crackdown will boost ESG fund flows: ASIC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... just don't be misleading about it. The performance of the product is a separate issue," Longo said. Climate disclosure standards are currently before parliament to enforce accurate reporting around sustainability-related activities. "While the shift ...

RIAA launches Sustainability Classifications Initiative

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... investment at Colonial First State, said the label fulfils a need for transparency and is well-aligned with international standards. "There is a need for that wholeness of common language for the advisor to communicate with and offer a customer," Rana ...

Geostrategic risks in a changing world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... investors navigate these risks and opportunities? Geopolitical risks require investors to look beyond narrowly defined ESG standards, Gareth Evans told the audience today at the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia's (RIAA) 2024 Conference ...

Auditors lambast mandatory climate reporting requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... markets, and we need to be ready to meet that change at every step of its development. To do that, we must maintain high standards of governance and disclosure," Longo said. "We understand that there will obviously be a period of transition as industry ...
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