Leading the sustainability transition calls for the board to go beyond compliance and ask practical questions about ESG governance.

Low fee increases over the past five years mean non-executive directors’ pay rises have dropped below inflation, survey shows.

Companies benefit from diverse workforces, but also from having the input of different opinions and ways of thinking.

In Europe as a whole, only 7.7% of top companies’ chief executives are female, gender diversity barometer shows.

Groups including EuropeanIssuers and ecoDa warn against an EU requirement for firms to consider stakeholder interests when making decisions.

Compliance is no longer simply a question of rules, but of anticipating societal expectations and reflecting them in your corporate strategy.

While progress is being made, the primary measure of performance for most boards and investors largely remains short-term earnings.

Investors lead backlash against Rio Tinto over destruction of Aboriginal sites. Plus a warning from ecoDa on sustainability, and analysis of Australia’s audit market.

A report from ecoDa cautions that current boardroom composition may not “respond to the imperatives” of the post-pandemic business environment.

European directors’ association ecoDa says standardisation of data to aid comparability may not result in more sustainable companies.