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Fixing Australia's complicated carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... she said. "It should not be the first thing you do, it should be the last thing you do in terms of decarbonising your business. "Think about what carbon credits you buy, in terms of the underlying project and methodology, to make sure it's a real ...

Does Canberra's agenda align with sustainable investment?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... accountability for big polluters to reduce emissions." However, the Labor government's agenda doesn't stop with the E in ESG. the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSDA) has mapped Labor's policy announcements and legislation since ...

CEFC, ANZ provide discount finance for SMEs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is allocating up to $200 million with ANZ to provide discounted clean energy finance to business customers. The investment is designed to encourage small to medium-sized (SME) businesses to invest in activities to cut ...

APRA releases climate risk assessment results

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... guide outlines best practice across five pillars - identifying and measuring risks to understand potential impacts on business model, monitoring risks through regulator updated metrics, considering scenario analysis to inform understanding of long-term ...

Pact Group commits to reducing emissions 50% by 2030

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... packaging, plastic recycling and reuse company's target covers its direct and indirect Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. "Our business activities have a direct impact on the environment and as a leader of the circular economy, it is our responsibility to ...

NGS Super divests from oil and gas producers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... and therefore are on our exclusion list until such time that we get additional information that would indicate that the business has materially changed direction," said NGS Super CIO Ben Squires. "We don't think that's feasible for many of those ...

ESG strong factor in M&A activity: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... of the world, you're also going to get the benefits of a reduced carbon tax." Chadha also noted that a manufacturing business with strong integrated automation could provide benefits in stronger occupational health and safety and better wellbeing for ...

ESG product definitions a matter for legislation: ASIC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... be taking quite a proactive and probative approach to thinking about climate change risk and what it means for their business, and then seeing that flow through their governance, and strategy and risk management processes, and secondly to continue foster ...

New Zealand XRB releases final climate reporting paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... paper is "a significant milestone towards ensuring the effects of climate change are actively and routinely considered in business, investment, and lending decisions," said XRB chief executive April Mackenzie. "Climate disclosures bring climate-related ...

Directors engage on breadth of ESG issues facing companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... new government has a mandate - pass." O'Sullivan pointed to climate policy uncertainty as an example of an area that business has had to manage and embrace change. "There was a lot of uncertainty about policy settings and a lot of change globally versus ...