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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 ...

Stafford Capital Partners launches sustainable timber impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... inclusive." The Stafford Carbon Offset Opportunity Fund is classified as an Article 9 impact fund under the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and will look to invest in afforestation, natural forest restoration and improved forest management ...

Frasers Property inks fresh sustainability-linked loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainability-linked financing for its Australia business," Leong said." This SLL is issued in accordance with FPA's Sustainable Finance Framework, which was launched in 2020. The framework provides overarching criteria and guideline, using the Global ...

Investor Group on Climate Change creates executive leadership position

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) and co-chaired the Technical Working Group in the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative (ASFI's) initial roadmap process. "As someone who has always been motivated by the potential for impact ...

Podcast: Mind the (climate skills) gap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... targeted upskilling. The report concluded that the current climate skills gap is likely to grow. In surveying 71 sustainable finance professionals in Australia, "more than three quarters of respondents say that climate skills are in moderate to high ...

Qualitas names Fiona Reynolds to ESG advisory board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... great financial system and this is what I want to be a part of." Australia should be positioning itself as a sustainable finance hub, Reynolds added. "People talk about Australia being a renewable energy powerhouse, and of course we should be that," ...

CFA Societies in call for uniform ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... complementary guidance to regulatory regimes extends to Australia and the taxonomy work of the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI). "CFA Institute is leading some of the work globally - the institute, along with the Global Sustainable Investment ...

APAC outperforms amid global sustainable finance pullback

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
Sustainable finance showed global declines across all categories in 2022, however, activity in Asia Pacific remained robust, according to research from Refinitiv. Refinitiv has issued its Sustainable Finance Review for 2022, which found that sustainable ...

ASFI outlines roadmap for sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) has made key recommendations on a sustainable finance taxonomy that is science-based, usable, operates with other international jurisdictions and meets the need of the Australian economic context. ...