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Practicing Human Rights Due Diligence in the Palm Oil Industry
Addressing the Knowledge Gap in Advancing Sustainable and Responsible Investment
Navigating Corporate Liability – Why Upholding Integrity Standards is Crucial to Malaysian Companies
Executive Compensation Can Be an Effective Lever for Corporate Climate Action
Malaysian Boards & Senior Management Remuneration Practices Report : Executive Report
From Red to Green: Energy Infrastructure Company Yinson’s Diversification Into Renewables and Climate Technology
Asean Taxonomy Version 2: An Overview of the Coal Phase-Out Framework
Managing Fraud and Bribery Risks Across Corporate Functions
An Investor's Guide to Voluntary Carbon Markets: Navigating Bursa Carbon Exchange
How Can Malaysia’s Businesses Better Integrate Nature-Related Risks into their Decision-Making
Bracing for Climate Realities: How ESG is Influencing Insurers’ Strategies in Malaysia
Protecting the Grid : How Boards in Malaysia’s National Interest Sectors are Pushing for Cybersecurity Safeguards
Understanding the Voluntary Carbon Market Landscape
Blowing the Whistle – Best Practices for Strengthening Corporate Integrity Disclosures
Improving Shareholder Engagement: New and Evolving Mechanisms to Foster Participation and Inclusion at General Meetings
CEO's Thoughts: Caring for Employees’ Financial Well-being
Datuk Muhamad Umar Swift shares his views on how companies can help to support the financial wellbeing of their employees.
Corporate Sustainability Practitioner Competency Framework
The competency framework serves as an aspirational reference to guide practitioners on the skills and competencies required to navigate the corporate sustainability ecosystem and drive sustainable outcomes.
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Maintaining corporate integrity and prioritising ethical business practices are increasingly becoming an unwavering stance for firms doing business throughout the world and their clientele.
Linking executive compensation to a company’s climate-related goals is an important catalyst for corporate climate action
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A collaboration between Bursa Malaysia Berhad, The Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM) and WTW - this Executive Report contains a brief overview of the findings and insights from the Boards & Senior Management Remuneration Practices
Incidents of fraud and bribery pose significant threats to the integrity and reputation of organisations in Malaysia. To combat these risks, companies must implement robust risk management strategies across all corporate functions.
Key infrastructures providing essential needs like water, electricity, transportation and telecommunications to millions of individuals, homes, and businesses are reliant on highly interconnected systems, thus making them potentially more vulnerable to cy
In recent years, Malaysia-listed companies have shown notable improvements in their corporate integrity disclosures,
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Investors are starting to feel the effects of climate change in an unexpected place – their financial returns. For this reason, there are now growing calls within the business community to improve the quality and coverage of climate risk disclosure.
Many businesses depend on third parties for a variety of valuable services. These include helping to source parts and supplies, marketing and selling products in specific territories, obtaining business licences, and operating call centres.
Concerns over labour rights abuse in Malaysia’s palm oil sector has put the industry under scrutiny in recent years.
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As governments and organisations race to net zero, the voluntary carbon market (VCM) has emerged as a crucial tool to spur climate action and allow firms to account for hard-to-abate emissions by supporting emissions avoidance,
Malaysia, a biodiversity hotspot, has many economic activities that are directly or indirectly dependent on nature and its services.
Due to its role as a risk manager, insurer and investor, the insurance industry plays an important role in ensuring the successful transition to a low carbon economy and fighting climate change.
Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) have seen rapid growth in the last decade as carbon offsets became an important part of climate strategies across the globe.
To continue participating in the global supply chain, Malaysian logistics companies increasingly need to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) best practices into their business operations. However, such initiatives are deemed costly to imp
The circular economy concept, with a focus on turning waste into resources and extending the life of products and materials, is now increasingly seen as an emerging paradigm for companies that want to promote sustainable growth.
As the global focus on sustainability intensifies, the financial sector is pivotal in steering capital towards sustainable and responsible investments.
The Asean Taxonomy Board recently released Version 2 of its taxonomy for sustainable finance, which includes technical screening criteria for the energy sector
This article looks at how the boards of public listed companies can structure their communication and engagement with shareholders, especially in a post-pandemic world where virtual and hybrid meetings have become the norm and are increasingly
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Investors are embracing the need to consider broader impacts that investments have on society and the environment as a whole.
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Demystifying the key differences and nexus between the 2 concepts
External Report
The guidance document helps financial institutions adopt measures for climate change mitigation and adaptation
What are the opportunities to develop new ESG and SDG-aligned Islamic finance products?
Want to be a responsible investor? Step one, learn how to cut through the jargon
Letter
Our Chairman, Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar, shares his thoughts and vision for the Malaysian capital market via an annual open letter to the Chairpersons of all listed issuers.
Insights
Hosted by our CEO Datuk Muhamad Umar Swift, CEO2CEO features peer-to-peer conversations on corporate sustainability with CEOs from leading companies in Malaysia.
Our CEO, Datuk Muhamad Umar Swift shares his opinions on emerging sustainability issues via this dedicated column...
An engaging, user-friendly resource to support PLCs with sustainability-related disclosure requirements.
The Sustainability Reporting Guide and Toolkits detail the business case for embedding sustainability and provides guidance on how this can be achieved. It also provides specific guidance on the information that should be disclosed when producing a Sustainability Statement in the Annual Report in accordance with Bursa Malaysia’s Listing Requirements.
The Joint Committee on Climate Change (JC3) today released the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”)
Corporate Governance
The CG Guide provides practical guidance to listed issuers to improve CG practices and reporting in line with the principles and requirements contained in the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance (“MCCG”) and enhanced CG disclosure requirements in the Listing Requirements.
Bursa Resources
Guidance on Disclosures relating to Material Contracts and Prevention of Selective Disclosure of Material Information
The enforcement/disciplinary procedures and processes adopted are set out in the Business Rules and LR (collectively “the Rules”) and further supplemented under/via this ICON-DP.
Guidance on Disclosures in Notes to Quarterly Report
These guidelines are intended to guide directors of listed issuers in making disclosures concerning risk management and internal control in their company’s annual report pursuant to the paragraph 15.26(b) of the Listing Requirements. In making the statement, companies are required to explain their governance policies, including any special circumstances which have led them to adopting a particular approach.
This 15-min course introduces what constitutes as bribery and corruption as defined by Malaysian law, specifically the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009.
This e-learning session seeks to help sustainability practitioners of all levels understand why sustainability is of growing importance to businesses, and how reporting can help businesses manage their key environment, social and governance (ESG) issues.
A Study by the National University of Singapore That Predicts a Rise in Heat Stress-Related Economic Losses in Singapore by 2035
Taiping Municipal Council Becomes Perak’s First Local Authority to Use Food Waste Composting Machine
Yinson Raises RM283.2 Million in Private Placement for Green Tech and Renewable Energy Activities