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New Zealand XRB releases final climate reporting paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... Climate-related Disclosure standards that will come into force next year. The New Zealand government last year passed legislation that made climate-related disclosures mandatory for around 200 of the country's largest entities. The reporting regime has ...

Directors engage on breadth of ESG issues facing companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... constant change as important issues for board governance. Wood was strongly supportive of passage of strengthened climate legislation in federal parliament. "I think this is a real opportunity for the federal parliament on a bipartisan basis to put in ...

Consultation on faith-based products opens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
Treasury has released draft legislation that would adjust how the Your Future, Your Super performance test is applied to faith-based products. The regulator has also launched a public consultation that will close on August 16. Under the legislation ...

Pause to YFYS rollout as government announces review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... of MySuper performance tests have taken place by August this year. The government will also release exposure draft legislation for consultation to implement its election commitment to adjust the performance test for faith-based products. The impact of ...

Industry reacts to ASIC greenwashing guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... developments and ensuring disclosures are also reflected correctly. "It makes it clear that ASIC believes that current legislation addresses at least some of the major greenwashing concerns," said Angela Ashton, founder and director of Evergreen Consultants. ...

HESTA pushes legal alignment to UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... for super fund members. Human rights experts tell FS Sustainability that integrating the principles of UNDRIP into legislation creates would improve social and financial outcomes for Indigenous Australians and provide greater legal certainty. HESTA ...

CBA sees push to greater quantity, quality of climate risk reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... a public consultation on the draft ISSB standards and that "there is a general expectation, and this is written in legislation, that we will adopt the international one unless there's a really good reason not to." "Quite a lot of companies within ...

BNP Paribas AM launches sustainable Asia fixed income strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... global fund manager's first Asia-focused fixed income strategy that is classified as an SFDR Article 9 fund under EU legislation, and is designed to capture investments that promote sustainable Asian cities that meet the challenges of increased urbanisation ...

Ratification of Forced Labour Protocol to impact Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... committed to ratifying it as part of their ILO membership. In December 2021, the Western Australian government passed legislation which will bring its laws into line with protocol, ensuring compliance across all state and territories by entry into force ...

AASB considering ISSB sustainability standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... Australian accounting standard is the AASB," Kendall said. "There is a general expectation, and this is written in legislation, that we will adopt the international one unless there's a really good reason not to." ISSB was established by the International ...