Transparency in reporting on social issues is a powerful way for businesses to build trust, create accountability, show leadership, and move the dial on seemingly indelible industry-wide issues. It is also a key factor for ESG investors who want to show alignment with increasingly stringent ESG regulations.

The use of ESG integration strategies have increased by 15.4% year on year in Japan, despite a decrease in the country’s sustainable investment balance, a Japan Sustainable Investment Forum (SIF) White Paper has found.

With Australian proxy season preparations now underway, the Australian federal authorities are looking to introduce a public register of companies that use the government’s JobKeeper programme. Debates around the proposed bill centre over the impact and fairness of Covid furlough support and a lack of corporate transparency over the uptake and use of wage subsidies.

Pfizer has increased its presence in the growing sustainable debt market by issuing a $1 billion sustainability bond which will support the delivery of the Covid-19 vaccine.