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Companies fall short on net zero commitments: ClimateWorks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... analysis from ClimateWorks Australia. ClimateWorks has published Corporate action for 1.5 degrees: best practice for Australian company net zero commitments, which assessed 30 of Australia's largest companies against four best practice principles for ...

CEFC in $50m agri-platform investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... global agricultural impact fund the Kempen SDG Farmland Fund. The platform will be managed by Gunn Agri Partners, an Australian-based specialist agricultural asset manager with a portfolio of $300 million. The platform will span mixed farming assets ...

Climate change "a first-order risk": RBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... "It almost invariably comes up in conversations I have with asset managers. "In our liaison conversations with many Australian companies, they also tell us that climate comes up constantly in their discussions with their equity investors and bond holders." ...

ESG managed funds see surging inflows: Calastone

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... latest Fund Flow Index (FFI) measures trading flows for managed funds, and Calastone reports that more than 95% of Australian managed fund flows pass across the Calastone network each month. In total, Australians committed $6.3 billion of new capital ...

Carbon offsets essential to net zero ambitions: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... integrity of offsetting units. Australia is in a strong position regarding carbon offsets because of the robust nature of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) and their use as part of the Safeguard Mechanism. The Safeguard Mechanism requires Australia's ...

HESTA, Lendlease back First Nations initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
Businesses and investors including HESTA and Lendlease have launched an initiative that will focus on strengthening Australia's First People's heritage laws. The First Nations Heritage Protection Alliance, the Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA) ...

Corporate finance execs seeking greater ESG knowledge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... with information outside the financial statements but also we've seen bulletins and guidance produced from the Australian Accounting Standards Board around how climate risk needs to be considered within the financial statements themselves," McWilliams ...

Evidence of ESG's impact "inconclusive": Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... same time. Morningstar's research reinforces this data. According to Morningstar's Sustainable Investing Landscape for Australian Fund Investors report for Q2 2021, assets in Australian sustainable investments were $33.42 billion on 30 June 2021, a 66% ...

Aurecon creates new sustainability leadership role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... positive contribution to society." Aurecon is a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact and is a supporter of the Australian Industry Energy Transition Initiative to accelerate the impact of emissions reductions across hard-to-abate sectors.

Brisbane firm to build organic waste to biogas system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... mid-2022, the MMAD System will be developed as part the 'turning office trash into energy treasure' challenge led by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). "The design of our MMAD system is tripled layered and provides both social and environmental ...