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Victorian government announces $10m biodiversity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
The Victorian state government has announced a $10 million fund aimed at protecting threatened flora and fauna and boosting private investment in the state's biodiversity. Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change Lily D'Ambrosio has announced ...

Heritage Bank hires first ESG and sustainability manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Heritage Bank has created the role of ESG and sustainability manager. The mutual bank has hired Andrew Masci to the newly created role, its first dedicated ESG resource. Masci will drive the ongoing development of Heritage's ESG framework including ...

Igneo reports on ESG progress

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Infrastructure manager Igneo Infrastructure Partners has reported on its progress towards environmental and social indicators in its 2021 ESG report. Igneo is First Sentier Investors' direct infrastructure business. In March, it became a standalone ...

High modern slavery risk to ASX 300: ISS ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... controversies across 7,400 companies globally. "The scorecard is a tool to help investors to identify, evaluate and of course act on modern slavery risk," said Clare Bartram, ESG specialist, modern slavery, ISS ESG. "Broadly, it is 25 data points and ...

Leaders on road to ESG maturity by 2030: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
A vast majority of corporate leaders believe that ESG priorities will be important to their organisations, but only 39% of leaders believe that they will have implemented the operational changes required to meet their ESG targets by 2030, according ...

Industry reacts to ASIC greenwashing guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... approach to financial products that are environmentally friendly, ethical or sustainable," he said. That doesn't address the act hat a lot of funds out there that say they incorporate ESG rather than necessarily an environmental, sustainable or ethical ...

CEFC allocates $2m to airlines emissions solution developer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has allocated $2 million to an Australian manufacturing company developing a solution to combat aviation carbon emissions. CEFC has joined venture capitalist Bill Tai and Amanda Terry of ACTAI Ventures in ...

ASIC: improve greenwashing disclosure or risk penalty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) recent information sheet on greenwashing is focused on improving practices on ESG disclosure in managed funds and superannuation, with the regulator saying it would consider enforcement ...

Brambles sets 2040 net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Logistics company Brambles has announced that it will achieve its net zero target by 2040, ten years earlier than first pledged. As part of that new deadline, Brambles has set 2030 interim targets approved by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) ...

HESTA pushes legal alignment to UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Super fund HESTA says aligning Australian law to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) would enhance outcomes for Indigenous Australians as well as stronger long-term returns for super fund members. Human rights ...