This week we have Duncan Paterson, Director of Investor Practice at the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) on the show to discuss Australia’s mandatory climate reporting regime.

It’s undoubtedly a massive opportunity to open the door wider to green investment and reach net zero by 2050. However, investors face the unique challenge of understanding portfolio emissions, as well as growing concerns around exposure to greenwashing – and ‘greenhushing’ – risk.

How can we ensure that climate reporting goes beyond a mere compliance exercise and provides investors and stakeholders with genuinely useful and actionable information?

To unpack this topic and many more, the IGCC is holding its annual Climate Finance and Investment Summit, on 7-8 November at the Sofitel, Melbourne.

This unmissable event brings together leading investment experts, policymakers, academics, and industry associations dedicated to driving the transition towards a decarbonised economy.

The host of The Greener Way is Rose Mary Petrass, senior journalist at FS Sustainability.

This podcast episode is brought to you by the IGCC.

For more information, visit igcc.org.au. To book your ticket and view the agenda for IGCC’s Annual Summit, visit the event website here.

With ESG and sustainability roles in high demand, many professionals are eyeing a career change into this impactful sector.

In this episode, host Rose Mary Petrass speaks with Belinda White, who successfully transitioned from a communications background into the world of responsible investing and ESG.

She now works company-side at Telix Pharmaceuticals as Director of Investor Relations and ESG.

Belinda shares valuable advice on leveraging transferable skills, effective networking, common misconceptions, and facilitating better stakeholder relationships between investors and companies.

Whether you're considering a career change or simply want to understand the ESG landscape better, this episode is packed with insights.

Australia recently gave employees the right to ignore their boss outside of ordinary work hours.

The law is meant to protect the health and wellbeing of workers and reduce stress and overwork, allowing for better work-life balance in a time when the world is more hyper-connected than ever before.

But what role does corporate culture and employee satisfaction play in financial performance, and will financiers actually consider the new law when making investment decisions?

Today, we are joined by Emma Pringle, Head of ESG and Portfolio Manager at Maple-Brown Abbott, a boutique firm with around $9 billion in assets under management.

Pringle will explain how investors and asset managers respond when workplaces are exposed as dysfunctional or 'toxic' - and what impact this has on business performance.

The host of The Greener Way is Rose Mary Petrass, senior journalist at FS Sustainability.