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PRI to shake up reporting framework for signatories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... frameworks, any reporting and assessment we do to pathways that are more relevant to them." PRI introduced a mandatory disclosure regime for signatories in 2013 and since 2014, signatories have been required to report annually on their implementation ...

Investors prepare for urgent action on nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Growing awareness in finance regarding nature conservation and the opportunities related to natural capital is increasingly top of mind for investors. FS Sustainability recently hosted its inaugural event in Sydney supported by ISS ESG, where experts ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). AASB has opened up a 120-day comment period on ASRS 1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Climate-related Financial Information and ASRS 2 Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, ending on 1 March 2024. ...

Connecting capital to nature the next challenge: ASFI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australasia to help scale up understanding and utilisation of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) disclosure framework, Yazbek-Martin said. A lot of the initial work around natural capital will be to define the indicators that ...

ASX50 lags on disclosure of political spending: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Australia's largest listed companies lag US counterparts when it comes to governance and disclosure of political spending, according to research from the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). ACCR analysed ASX50 companies on how well ...

NSW Anti-slavery commissioner raises alarm on ASX risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... organizstion should be across." Earlier this year, ACSI published https://www.fssustainability.com.au/asx-200-modern-slavery-disclosure-lags Compliance without ambition: Taking stock of ASX200 reporting under Australia's Modern Slavery Act, a report ...

Reducing risk and navigating a just transition

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Steering the economy away from emissions-intensive industries comes significant social and economic risks that arise from transitioning communities. Institutional investors need to integrate these risks into their strategies or risk a "messy, chaotic ...

GRESB leader now 100% green loan financed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Frasers Property Group and Scentre Group have ranked among the top real estate firms in the world in the biggest year to date for the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) assessment. This year GRESB Real Estate Assessment participation ...

Two-thirds of boards lack ESG understanding: PwC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Just one-third of corporate boards have a strong understanding of ESG risks affecting their companies, just a quarter report a robust sense of carbon emissions and even less of their company's climate risk or strategy. Half (51%) of directors say their ...

France "Say on Climate" law scrapped

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... management globally called for the Australian government to adopt the ISSB Climate Standard baseline requirements for disclosure of transition plans," she said. "Investors in Australia have embraced the Say on Climate mechanism and all of the largest ...