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Matt Kean calls for greater private investment in transition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean has called for more private market investment in the nation's energy transition at the IGCC Summit 2025. "Getting money out the door is the first thing. This is going to be a huge challenge, and we're going ...

QIC injects $20.5m into domestic copper, critical minerals projects

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... continues to be a standout in its offer of scale, quality and low development risk, all within a proven operating environment with local offtake partners," Crombie said. "The QCMBTF investment supports a new phase of copper production that will strengthen ...

APRA names four focus areas for reconciliation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... latest RAP builds on APRA's previous commitments and focuses on four key themes. These include creating a working environment that increasingly attracts, retains and develops Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees; and broadening the impact ...

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 ...

NAB delivers over $2bn in green finance lending

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
NAB has delivered more than $2 billion in new green business lending, with the commercial real estate (CRE) sector accounting for the largest share in 2025. The finance option forms a key part of NAB's broader climate strategy, which includes the $80 ...

Fiducian sued for greenwashing in ESG fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... fund stated: "The share portfolios comprise investments in companies that aim to be positive for society and for the environment and aim to avoid investments in harmful activities." The regulator said it also specified several industries or activities ...

Companies under pump to provide sustainability data

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... externally, while 56% indicated the pressure was internally derived. Irrespective of evolutions in the regulatory environment, stakeholders including investors, employees and civil society groups are placing increasing emphasis on company sustainability ...

Climate finance groups call for stronger regulations

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
More than 50 global climate finance groups have issued a joint statement to global financial system regulators and supervisors. The letter pushes for stronger regulations to rule out new fossil fuels. Significant players among the 50 are Market Forces ...

Net Zero Australia reiterates role of carbon capture in transition

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
Net Zero Australia has reiterated the role of natural gas and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) to achieve Australia's net zero ambitions. The report highlighted that CCUS has an important role to play in all net zero scenarios and both ...

Heat-related illness to 'overwhelm' Australian healthcare

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... in major urban areas. According to recent assessment from the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, the future climate risk is given the highest possible rank at 'severe', driven by multiple public health risks stemming ...