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Investors lack clarity, rural solutions lack funding

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Renewable Yackandandah's ongoing community project to increase local energy independence and environmental sustainability. The Augusta Margaret River Clean Community Energy Incorporated received funding to undertake a dairy waste energy study to ...

Farm to table reporting to increase ag investment certainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Robust and credible sustainability metrics data that runs from the farm gate to the kitchen table is part of a push to signal Australia's agricultural industry as attractive to investors. A growing population and our proximity to Asia makes agriculture ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS) will first focus on climate-related financial reporting, under an exposure draft released by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). AASB has opened up a 120-day comment period on ASRS 1 ...

Connecting capital to nature the next challenge: ASFI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian Sustainable Finance Institute's Australian Sustainable Finance Summit on 24 October in Sydney. FS Sustainability is a proud media partner to the summit. ASFI head of taxonomy and natural capital Nicole Yazbek-Martin spoke to the challenges ...

Podcast: Hearing sustainability's future - Maria Meinert

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Joining us for this episode is Maria Meinert, director of sustainability at Cochlear. Maria is an experienced sustainability professional and part of FS Sustainability's inaugural ESG Power50 list, representing one of the 50 most influential sustainability ...

How to build a climate-resilient business: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... "Sustained action across adaptation and emissions reduction will be required to maintain productivity and fiscal sustainability as well as achieve better social and environmental outcomes. Effective investments in resilience will also reduce costs to ...

Investment in climate tech plummets 40%: PwC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... seen capital flows to climate tech ventures drop 40% at a time when climate tech needs it most," PwC UK global sustainability leader Will Jackson-Moore commented. "But while such industry and macroeconomic dynamics may cloud investor confidence, they ...

GRESB leader now 100% green loan financed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... 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 increased by 15% to include 2084 real estate ...

Arup becomes approved verifier for Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... have. Arup is uniquely placed to leverage the experience of its inhouse engineers and design teams, which have sustainability as a core element of their approach, to enhance trust between project owners and developers, and capital providers, and improve ...

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 ...