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Treasury Wine Estates inks sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... ever Sustainability Linked Loan for the company," said Noemie Peiffer, head of sustainable finance, capital markets group, global banking Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas. "As one of the largest wine companies in the world, Treasury Wine Estates has a significant ...

Perpetual launches active ESG ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... our clients," said PAMA group executive Amanda Gillespie. Perpetual will next launch IDEA, an ETF based on the Perpetual Global Innovation Share Fund. "In terms of why we started with GIVE and IDEA, we were thinking about some of the thematics and demands ...

Failing to manage ESG a severe risk to business: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... "This is part of the challenge, understanding the breadth and scope of data we're going to need access to tactually measure impact. "That's going to be quite challenging, but it will create opportunities, too, in terms of new orgs, translate and store ...

GII launch gender equality impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
Global Impact Initiative (GII) has launched an actively managed equity impact investment fund focused on women and girls, available to retail investors. The Global Gender Equality Fund is the world's first, actively managed, impact investment fund ...

COP26 week two: impacts for Australians

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... guide investment in the transition required this decade if Australia is to avoid the costs and missed opportunities if global heating exceeds 1.5C." The second week of COP26 also featured issue-specific days covering women, water and transport, bringing ...

CEFC makes $25m allocation to Orica to manage nitrous oxide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... CO 2 -e through the abatement of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that is 265 times more potent than carbon dioxide "The global warming potential of nitrous oxide emissions are much more potent than carbon dioxide emissions," CEFC CEO Ian Learmonth said. ...

COP26 week one: what Australians need to know

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... catalysing private finance. "We need greater ambition - you can't escape from that," Dodwell said. "We have 75% of global GDP under net zero goals. We have 19 of the G20 signed up to net zero. The transformation in the past two years, you can't ...

IFRS announces plan for comprehensive sustainability standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... the Value Reporting Foundation and others will provide the foundations to achieve this goal." ISSB will be the primary global sustainability standard setter. It will sit alongside IASB, the body that develops and issues international financial reporting ...

NAB, Ramsay Health Care in ESG derivative transaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability improvement targets that are both credible and ambitious, the same logic applies to a derivative," said NAB global head of sustainable finance David Jenkins. NAB announced in September that it would offer sustainability-linked derivatives ...

CEFC in $50m agri-platform investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... climate change. The CEFC made the allocation to the Transforming Farming Platform alongside an initial $50 million from global agricultural impact fund the Kempen SDG Farmland Fund. The platform will be managed by Gunn Agri Partners, an Australian-based ...