FS Sustainability

Podcast: Investor pathway to decarbonise

THE GREENER WAY   Can captured carbon dioxide be transformed into valuable commercial products, and could this help heavy industries such as cement, steel and mining accelerate their path to net zero while creating new business opportunities?

Government, industry back low-carbon fuel production

RIDDHIMA TALWANI   The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) with the support from industry partners including Qantas and Boeing is backing a project to fast-track commercial scale production of low carbon liquid fuel (LCLF).

EU to ease sustainability reporting burden on firms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI   The European Commission has adopted a revised European sustainability reporting standard (ESRS) and a voluntary reporting standard for smaller companies.

Two Aussie insto investors ace global governance test

RIDDHIMA TALWANI   Future Fund and Rest have achieved a perfect score on the 2026 assessment of Governance, Sustainability and Resilience (GSR) practices among global sovereign investors.

Super funds join calls for better methane emissions disclosures

MATTHEW WAI   Institutional investors representing over $14 trillion in assets under management have come together to signify the importance in methane emission disclosure among metallurgical coal and steel providers.

ART to employ more First Nations members into its workforce

MATTHEW WAI   Australian Retirement Trust has launched its second Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan, highlighting initiatives the super fund will complete by the end of 2028, including setting up a First Nations workforce target.

CEFC, Aviva Investors partner to afforest Tasmanian wetlands

RIDDHIMA TALWANI   The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is partnering with Aviva Investors and Gresham House to invest $142 million in sustainable forestry plantations in Tasmania.

Government pushes for First Nations ownership in renewable projects

RIDDHIMA TALWANI   The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is adopting a pilot initiative to help First Nations communities benefit from Australia's clean energy future.

Performance incentives may undermine honesty: Study

VINNY VUCAGO   A new study from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is challenging one of the most influential ideas in modern economics, arguing trust and professional integrity may, in some cases, deliver better organisational outcomes than performance-bases incentives.

Australia adds 25k millionaires, boasts low wealth inequality

KARREN VERGARA   Australia's club of millionaires jumped by 25,000 last year thanks to booming property values and fat superannuation balances, according to the UBS Global Wealth Report, which also found the country boasts comparatively low wealth distribution inequality.

EQT acquires Copia Power from Carlyle

MATTHEW WAI   EQT has acquired the US renewable energy platform from The Carlyle Group, expanding its infrastructure portfolio across the nation.

Quinbrook fund oversubscribed amid energy-transition asset demand

KARREN VERGARA   Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners closed its Renewables Impact Fund (QRIF II), beating its target that was oversubscribed by £87 million ($168m).

Campbell Global promotes new head of global acquisition

VINNY VUCAGO   J.P. Morgan subsidiary Campbell Global has promoted Michael Barbara to head of global acquisition.

ARENA reshuffles board with four senior appointments

VINNY VUCAGO   The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has unveiled a refreshed board, appointing Marianna O'Gorman as chair and Elizabeth O'Leary as deputy chair in the first all-female leadership team in the agency's history.