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This was helped by moves by President Biden in the US to re-join the Paris Climate Accord after former President Trump exited it during his presidency. “Industry funds have said they are seeing a seismic shift in the last month, there has really been a movement and this is driven by the US. The US are starting to get serious on it but Australia has been ignoring it,” Aked said. “There has been discussion in Australia on ESG parameters but we need to get harder on this and show we are comp...

“For too long, there’s been no consistent approach or standardised metric to reporting on an investment fund’s net carbon footprint,” the fund said. “This has led to distorted data, confusion and businesses simply putting it into the ‘too-hard to do basket.” Future Super had been carbon negative since 2018 and aimed to use these learnings to help other businesses achieve the same result. Its member base more than doubled in 2020 as consumers switched to ethical finance options and...

Filed to:environmentally friendly Image: iStock At Lifehacker, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think youll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW - prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting. You probably don’t realise, but every decision you make has an impact on the environment. From what you choose to eat for dinner to how you co...

We are taught from a young age that periods are a private, if not shameful, issue. But with women’s labour force participation on the rise, these old attitudes have to change if our workplaces are to be productive and inclusive.

Australia is emerging as a global leader on menstrual and reproductive health leave, but the policy is hotly contested. A research team at the University...

10 things you need to know this morning in Australia Jack Derwin Good morning, folks. Lets get cracking. 1. Yet another company has been found out rorting Australian asylum seeker contracts for millions of dollars in profit, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Multinational Applus Wokman won a $121 million contract to resettle asylum seekers. It then paid local workers just $8 an hour to do the work but charged Australian taxpayers as if they were being paid $75, in an act liken...

The Future Super team at the 2019 climate strike. Source: supplied. More than 380 business leaders, including the heads of Atlassian and Canva, are again supporting their staff to walk out this afternoon to join students on the School Strike 4 Climate. The businesses are getting behind the Not Business as Usual movement, spearheaded by green super fund Future Super, and its founder and chief Simon Sheikh. According to Sheikh, the support is indicative of a shifting culture in the tech sector, a...

(Photo by Dan Kitwood, Getty Images) Thousands of school students will take to the streets to protest government inaction on the climate crisis this Friday. The Australia-wide protests mark the first school climate strike since the start of the pandemic last year. The events are backed by strong support from Australian tech and business leaders including Atlassian and Canva. Following a Federal Budget which left the climate agenda for dead, thousands of school children are protesting government...

Managing brand reputation in the midst of cancel culture Marketers and thought leaders share how brand custodians need to rethink reputation and crisis management in the face of growing cultural and societal consumer expectations In the era of cancel culture, one poorly thought-out message can do sudden and severe damage to a brand. But marketers today find themselves on the hook for more than just what brands say to the world. Bad executive behaviour, supply chains issues and poorly thought-ou...

This week, Warren Davies, the managing director of All or Nothing, interviews some of the team behind ‘ethical’ superannuation fund Future Super – a company that goes against the grain by actively seeking sustainable investments and staunchly not investing in fossil fuels.