• ESG isn’t all about climate change, although that is important. According to Estelle Parker, co-CEO of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), it also includes factors such as biodiversity and nature loss on the environmental front, social issues such as modern slavery, human rights abuses, gender balance and workplace diversity, and governance issues such as transparency, tax evasion and corruption.
• A 2024 survey by the RIAA found animal cruelty was one of the top concerns for investors, with two-thirds listing it as important and more than half wanting non-animal testing for non-medicinal purposes. More than three-quarters of respondents felt it was important to avoid human rights violations. Gambling, companies that don’t pay their fair share of tax, tobacco, weapons, environmental damage, pornography, and investing in armed-conflict zones were…