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APRA told to reign in super system's financed emissions

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
A new report recommends a mandatory value of emissions reduction (VER) framework for the super industry, which would help embed a 'zero-carbon mindset' in every investment decision. A mandatory value of emissions reduction framework for super ...

IGCC 2025 Climate Leaders named

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has announced the winners of its annual Climate Leaders' Awards for 2025. The awards were presented at the IGCC Annual Climate Finance and Investment Summit. The potential recipients are nominated by IGCC ...

Private investment is the key to the green economic transition

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
At the recent Investment Group for Climate Change (IGCC) Annual Summit conference for 2025, Equip Super's head of responsible investment Jessie Pettigrew moderated a panel that discussed the sustainable investment opportunities in areas of regional ...

Gender equity boosts company performance, market value: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Companies that embed gender equity as part of their strategy tend to deliver better performance and can boost market value, new research from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) shows. Companies with more balanced leadership teams are more likely ...

Green moves: Carbon Markets Institute, Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
The Carbon Markets Institute has a new chief executive, while Cotality added a head of sustainability solutions and Future Fund welcomes an executive director of energy transition. Australia's sovereign wealth fund has appointed an experienced energy ...

IGCC launches climate resilience, governance guides

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has released two new guides, Climate Capability for Boards and Beyond Risk to Building Resilience, designed to strengthen corporate governance and climate resilience. Climate Capability for Boards: A Framework ...

Grattan calls for expanding Safeguard Mechanism to electricity sector

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Grattan Institute has recommended expansion of the Safeguard Mechanism, the federal government policy constraining emissions by big industry, to the electricity sector. The new report, Bills down, emissions down: A practical path to net-zero electricity ...

APRA names four focus areas for reconciliation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released its Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) for the period October 2025 to September 2027. This is the regulator's second Innovate RAP and third RAP since 2017. The latest RAP builds ...

Green moves: ART, Koda Capital, Melbourne Climate Futures

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Melbourne Climate Futures has appointed an industry heavyweight to lead its sustainable finance hub. Former chief executive of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), Simon O'Connor will take the helm as director. As such, O'Connor ...

Fiducian sued for greenwashing in ESG fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
ASIC has launched proceedings in the Supreme Court of NSW against Fiducian Investment Management, alleging it breached its duties as a responsible entity and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct about its environmental, social and governance ...