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Stewardship and greenwashing in spotlight at RI Australia 2023

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... direction. APRA executive director Sean Carmody will join the discussion on how Australia's forthcoming sustainable finance taxonomy will provide much needed definitions of what constitutes a sustainable investment. "Really this conference is about ...

Jones calls for taxonomy to clarify greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
Assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones said that without a sustainable finance taxonomy, regulators will only be able to catch the "most egregious" examples of greenwashing in Australia. Speaking at the Australian Council ...

Investors welcome Commonwealth green bond program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... manager Gavin Goodhand. "It will also provide a greater understanding of what governments are doing around their sustainable finance agenda. That focuses the mind within government and within ministries as well because they're pulling in the same ...

Government to fund sustainable finance taxonomy development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Jim Chalmers has announced that the government will co-fund the initial development phase of an Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, in partnership with the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI). ASFI is the organising body working with ...

Hong Kong stock exchange proposes climate disclosures

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... achieve the commitment to mandate TCFD-aligned disclosures by 2025 as announced by the Hong Kong Green and Sustainable Finance Cross-Agency Steering Group. HKEX head of listing Katherine Ng said the proposals will position Hong Kong as a trusted venue ...

RIAA hires head of certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... as locally. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has identified strengthening action on greenwashing as a pillar of his sustainable finance strategy, particularly through product labelling. "This is why we are so pleased to bring in Shalini, who will be overseeing ...

Australian sustainable finance taxonomy to feature traffic-light system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... their alignment to sustainable activities. That is one of the recommendations to come from the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute's (ASFI) final taxonomy recommendations report. The report, based on public consultation on a taxonomy framework ...

Australia "on notice" as final TNFD draft framework released

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... recommendations". Parker said she expects the Australian Government to include TNFD as it develops its comprehensive Sustainable Finance Strategy and that mandated nature-related reporting may come soon after mandatory climate reporting is legislated. ...

Podcast: Greening corporate finance - Alison Chan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
In this episode, we speak with Metrics investment director - sustainable finance Alison Chan. Chan has packed a lot of career experience into a short amount of time and we going to talk the state of sustainable finance in Australia as well as the future ...

HSBC Australia hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... emissions for eight sectors and will announce more this year. HSBC reported facilitating $84.2 billion of sustainable finance and investments in 2022 as part of a sustainable financing ambition of $1 trillion by 2030. Within Australia, HSBC was the sustainability ...