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Most inclusive Aussie orgs named

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Fossil-free super fund Future Group, member-owned Great Southern Bank QIC and non-bank lender Brighten Home Loans are among 82 Australian organisations deemed most committed to diversity and inclusion. In partnership with non-profit cultural centre ...

VIC SEC is back with $1 billion renewable target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Victoria's State Electricity Commission (SEC) has been reintroduced in a move that is hoped to crowd in investment into renewables in the state. Victorian premier Jacinta Allan launched a new Strategic Plan 2023-2035 for the SEC, setting out priorities ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... hope will provide a useful example as the corporate world moves towards mandatory disclosures of this sort," he added. Building on the TCFD's focus on atmospheric emissions, the TNFD approach goes beyond emissions reporting and covers land, ocean ...

Investors call for multilateral financial architecture overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Ahead of the upcoming COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, a member-led initiative of 86 institutional investors with US$9.6 trillion in assets under management reported a fall in total absolute financed greenhouse gas emissions. In its third annual progress ...

How to build a climate-resilient business: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... their value chain. Combined with high costs of adaptation, obscure and/or long term ROIs and modelling complexities, building a business case for investment in resilience opportunities can prove challenging. Q: How do you work with clients - both investors ...

GRESB leader now 100% green loan financed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Frasers Property Group and Scentre Group have ranked among the top real estate firms in the world in the biggest year to date for the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) assessment. This year GRESB Real Estate Assessment participation ...

Student accommodation provider inks billion-dollar SLL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
An owner/operator of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) has converted a $1.4 billion loan into a sustainability-linked loan linked to a number of ESG targets. The deal will see Scape save up to 5 basis points against the finance, provided the ...

Investing in net zero "makes business sense": Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... The second part is to what extent are we investing in economy-wide resilience, or a city-wide resilience? For example, building a sea wall to mitigate flooding is something no individual company has an incentive to do, but is there a role for government ...

Climate risk or opportunity for insurance sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Insurance leaders have reframed the challenge of climate risk as an opportunity, stating that physical risk from climate change is not the biggest challenge to insurance. Finity Consulting principal Rade Musulin and Swiss Reinsurance head of property ...

ZEN Energy recruits new senior exec

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Renewable energy retailer ZEN Energy has appointed a new chief financial officer. Phillipa Chen joins ZEN from Macquarie Group where she was a Director of Macquarie Asset Management. "Phillipa brings deep industry and capital market experience to ZEN's ...