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Nature taskforce announces leadership overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... into a senior advisory role, alongside eight other heavyweights. The other senior advisors hail from the World Economic Forum (WEF), Global Canopy, the Green Finance Institute, NatureFinance, and more. TNFD co-chair Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, who has held ...

AI trumps climate as chief risk factor: economists

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... economic consultant and Climate Council councillor, addressed the outlook for Australia after attending the World Economic Forum in Davos. While discussions around climate and extreme weather were widely discussed in Davos, misinformation and disinformation ...

WEF to unlock US$2.8 tr clean energy investment in global majority nations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced a new initiative to assist global majority nations accelerate clean energy investment solutions. The Network to Mobilize Clean Energy Investment for the Global South was founded in Davos this week to help ...

BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... integration was also cited as vital to understanding and responding to systemic risks. This comes as the World Economic Forum last week published its key risks for the next ten years. A spokesman provided additional comment on 29 Jan: "We are progressively ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Ahead of its annual meeting in Davos next week, the World Economic Forum (WEF) revealed an ominous outlook for the next decade: the world faces looming crises driven by compounding economic, societal and natural collapse. Economists warn we are entering ...

ESG in 2024: key trends and legislative changes for the year ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Biodiversity Conference COP 16 in October, and the UN Climate Change Conference COP 29 in November. At the World Economic Forum meeting in January, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) will announce an inaugural list of TNFD Adopters ...

PRI, CFA Institute and GSIA agree to common RI definitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... investment styles and asset classes in both public and private markets. "When we see regulators taking action around the world on topics like 'ESG integration' 'stewardship' or 'impact' and we don't have accepted standard ...

Appointment round-up: TelstraSuper, CSIRO, FRRR

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... financial officer and business operations manager. The national foundation specifically focuses on ensuring the social and economic strength of remote, rural and regional communities. Maclaren has more than 25 years' experience working across the non-profit ...

Social license or social-washing - weighing the value of public statements on the Voice

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... advisory body giving First Nations peoples the right to have a say on matters that affect them. Australia is the only first world nation with a colonial history that does not recognise its First Nations people in the constitution. Indigenous Australians ...

First two ISSB standards released - what investors need to know

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... standards were launched at the IFRS Foundation's annual conference and a week of events hosted by stock exchanges around the world including in Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, New York, Santiago de Chile, and hosted by the ASEAN Capital Markets ...
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