ESG Snapshot: Issue 153
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Three Key Takeaways
- Energy-transition investment is moving towards delivery, but infrastructure, financing and supply-chain readiness remain critical tests.
- Nature and sustainability commitments face sharper scrutiny, with investors, regulators and businesses seeking stronger evidence of measurable outcomes.
- Corporate accountability is expanding, from environmental claims and digital technology to workforce practices, procurement and supply-chain resilience.
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We’ve refreshed the Featured and Upcoming Events listings with new Member, Australian and international opportunities across nature, climate, circularity, sustainable finance and corporate performance.
New and updated listings include NRM Regions Australia’s Nature as Infrastructure webinar, AASB’s greenhouse gas emissions measurement and disclosure workshops, the NSW Waste & Resource Recovery Forum, WCEF2027, RIAA Conference Australia 2027 and Sustainability Business Live 2027.
BCSDA has lodged its submission on the proposed External Reporting Australia (ERA) standard-setting boards, supporting the reform while recommending improvements to transparency, international alignment and coordination across accounting, sustainability and assurance standards.
Why it matters: Businesses need clear, credible and proportionate reporting requirements that avoid unnecessary duplication.
The House Standing Committee on Industry, Innovation and Science has tabled When the rubber hits the road, recommending stronger tyre stewardship, a five-year transition away from onsite burial of mining and other off-the-road tyres, replacement tyre standard reviews, improved procurement for recovered tyre products and greater support for retreading and innovation.
These are Committee recommendations, not adopted Government policy. Businesses can examine potential implications for sourcing, logistics, recycling and procurement while awaiting the Government’s response.
Lower-carbon materials may be selected during design, but specifications, quantities, procurement decisions and contractor substitutions can change what is ultimately built.
A new WBCSD report identifies eight practices for maintaining carbon accountability between design and construction.
BCSD Australia examines these findings alongside Australian approaches, including NABERS Embodied Carbon, Green Star, MECLA and infrastructure carbon-management guidance.
The business question: Can project teams track changes, maintain responsibility and demonstrate that the original carbon intent has been carried through to delivery?
Our analysis includes five practical questions for asset owners, developers, designers, contractors and procurement teams.
We Mean Business Coalition is inviting companies to join more than 100 existing signatories to Seizing the Electric Advantage, a global business statement calling for faster clean electrification and policy certainty across electricity markets, grids, permitting and national electrification planning.
Companies that want to be included when the statement is relaunched at the opening of COP31 should sign by 2 November, 5:00 pm ET (3 November, 9:00 am AEDT).