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Podcast: Divestment, impact, and all that good stuff with Sharon Davis of Future Super
Today, senior journalist and host Rose Mary Petrass sits down with Sharon Davis, Executive Director of Investments at Future Super, a superfund that invests for a fossil fuel free future.
Three innovations to fix carbon market
With effective risk management and capital allocation, Australia's carbon market can scale to become the biggest in the world, Westpac and the Carbon Market Institute (CMI) say.
Investors fail to vote for climate despite pledges
Board directors of energy companies continue to be elected with over 95% shareholder support, even when those companies perform poorly against investor expectations.
RIAA: Sustainability goes mainstream
The RIAA Conference Australia 2024 is coming up in May, helping investors navigate the mainstreaming of sustainability, and unveiling pivotal initiatives like the Sustainability Classifications and the Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Investor Toolkit.
Native vegetation offsets in Victoria and/or the Federal offset system aim to manage and protect native vegetation and biodiversity in response to planning approvals. If these systems were rolled our beyond the planning approval obligations to a voluntary market, perhaps Business could actively (and somewhat transparently) manage and protect biodiversity in the regions in which they work. I do not advocate that it is a perfect system, but it is an existing system that puts a market value on biodiversity....which in my opinion is a positive step.