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Sustainable finance heavyweight to chair National Reconstruction Fund board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... venture partner at Brandon Capital Partners, a non-executive director of Sonic Healthcare and a member of the Curtin University Commercialisation Advisory Board. Kelly O'Dwyer, currently a non-executive director of Barrenjoey, Equity Trustees, and HMC ...

Climate disclosure lawsuit against Commonwealth settled

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... time by Financial Standard. Her investment came after meeting Barnden when he delivered a guest lecture at La Trobe University in July 2019, where O'Donnell was studying law at that time. Barnden - the lawyer who acted as the attorney in the McVei ...

Revenue recycling carbon tax would increase Australia's GDP

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... baseline, they purchase ACCUs or are fined. Report author Mona Mashhadi Rajabi, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Technology business school, said that the Safeguard Mechanism should have used a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) ...

Investments at risk: Finance "out of step" with climate science

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... finance world should be corrected as a matter of fiduciary duty, according to a report by economist Steve Keen from the University College of London and think tank Carbon Tracker. The report calls widely used economic modelling "wildly out of step" with ...

La Trobe Uni issues $175m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
La Trobe University has issued a $175 million green bond that will fund projects in areas including renewable energy, green building, sustainable water and waste management and other initiatives. The Melbourne-based university's inaugural green ...

Climate transition a factor in sovereign debt pricing: Ardea

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Markets was authored by global bond managers Ardea Investment Management alongside Fortlake Asset Management and the University of Technology Sydney. Researchers hope to give fixed income investors and policymakers a way to assess transition risk in ...

Climate resilience needed to dodge $442b VIC loss by 2100

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... economic loss in Victoria by 2100, caused by the impacts of sea level rise and storm surge. A recent study, led by the University of Melbourne, the Victorian Marine and Coastal Council and Life Saving Victoria (VMaCC), warns impacts on land and property ...

Report sounds alarm on data centre climate risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... use, but say they don't have detailed data on emissions to make decisions, according to recently released research. University of Technology Sydney's Institute for Sustainable Futures has published IT and Data Centre Sustainability in Australia, covering ...

University secures $450 million sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Macquarie University has inked a $450 million sustainability linked loan (SLL) as part of a refinancing deal that will see interest rate savings invested in scholarships for disadvantaged students. Macquarie has refinanced its bank facilities and worked ...

Offshore windfarms offer co-benefits

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... Investing in offshore wind farms offer biodiversity and economic co-benefits, according to new research led by Aberystwyth University academics. Research published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science found that offshore wind farms in the UK inadvertently ...