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J.P. Morgan vows $2.5 tn for sustainable development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... 49% women employees globally, including 45% women directors, and 28% senior level employees. The firm reported on its US race/ethnicity data. It reported higher ethnic and racial diversity amongst lower-level employees, with higher-level staff being ...

Looking beyond the gender pay gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Financiers are calling for a more nuanced breakdown of the gender pay gap, including executive salaries, and metrics tracking race, disability, and gender diverse individuals. This week, Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) revealed the median total ...

AI trumps climate as chief risk factor: economists

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... economy and could worsen inequality. As many as 300 million full-time jobs around the world could be automated. "There is a race around AI tech, we don't know where we're going. And we don't know whether it's a race to the bottom, or ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... global political stability. The report predicts a global trend of trade wars, higher capital expenditure on a global arms race in new military technology, and ultimately, state collapse. Climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse The report identifies ...

How to spot a credible transition plan: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... and 2 in line with the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Race to Zero. Meanwhile, the UK is considering making transition disclosure mandatory for larger British companies and has urged ...

A portfolio approach for renewable investment: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... hedge low spot price exposure by entering into fixed price contracts. All of this is to say that there may be a continued race to the bottom and more and more negative price situations due to coincident generation of low marginal cost renewable energy ...

Investors press Boral for clarity on net zero ambitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... and 2 in line with the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Race to Zero. For its part, Boral says it revised its 2025 target "to reflect what is achievable given regulatory and project delivery ...

Farm to table reporting to increase ag investment certainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... business previously told FS Sustainability that "agriculture has a unique role to play and is uniquely positioned" in the race to net zero. The latest offering to strengthen sustainability metrics data in the sector comes from a new partnership between ...

Asia ahead in Science Based Targets race

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
2022 saw an 87% increase in corporates setting targets, as more companies set targets in one year than in the seven years previously. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has reported 1097 companies set science-based targets in 2022 - a rise ...

Aussie farmers call for climate courage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... knowledge of the problem or by measures available, but by other obstacles structural, cultural, political, which inhibit the race and the scale of implementation. It is as though we lack courage. "Climate change brings us an opportunity to reimagine ...
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