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Unchecked climate change to cost Australia trillions: Climate Council

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... contrary, weaker targets will initiate "higher levels" of global heating, which could cause "catastrophic impacts" to the environment. Additionally, the cost of cutting climate pollution is dramatically less than unchecked climate change, which would ...

Brighter Super boosts agriculture portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
Brighter Super has awarded a $75 million mandate to Riparian Capital Partners. The $28.5 billion superannuation fund is allocating the funds to the Queensland Riparian Agriculture and Food Transition Trust (QRAFT). Brighter Super chief executive Kate ...

Gender diversity, overboarding top of mind for instos: Georgeson

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
The lack of gender diversity, independence and 'overboarding,' are some of the top reasons why institutional investors voted against directors, according to Georgeson, after analysing trends in the latest mini-AGM season. Analysing the AGM season between ...

Green moves: Perpetual, Accounting for Nature

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... ecosystems, both in Australia and around the world," Bremner said. Meanwhile, the director of the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) will lead a 12-month taskforce to develop an economy-wide Net Zero Plan for the New South Wales ...

CSIRO launches National Energy Analysis Centre

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
The new National Energy Analysis Centre (NEAC) will analyse and model anonymised energy data from households and businesses to provide more information to decision-makers to help steer the transition. The CSIRO says the new research function will support ...

UK ditches sustainable finance taxonomy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
The UK government has abandoned the Green Taxonomy as it believes it "would not be the most effective tool to deliver the green transition" and should not be part of the sustainable finance framework. "Whilst the government's ambitions to continue as ...

Green moves: Aware Super, Fred Hollows Foundation, Justice and Equity Centre

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
Aware Super has named Anna Young-Ferris as head of stewardship and senior manager of responsible investment. Reporting to head of responsible investment Liza McDonald, she'll lead the stewardship team's advocacy and engagement efforts. Young-Ferris ...

ESG-informed investing does not lead to positive sustainability: Scientific Beta

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
New research highlights that rigorous frameworks are necessary for evaluating environment, social, and governance (ESG) investment potential, while adding that not all ESG-informed investments will translate into a positive sustainable outcome. The ...

Green moves: Landcom, Oaktree, Rebuilt

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... trailblazer in embodied carbon and founder of The Footprint Company, Noller has spent her career transforming how the built environment measures and manages carbon," Rebuilt said. "With deep expertise in environmental impact assessment, low-carbon design ...

J.P. Morgan tests carbon credit tokenisation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
J.P. Morgan is working on a blockchain technology that would tokenise global carbon credits, believing it could solve issues around transparency and standardisation. Kinexys is J.P. Morgan's blockchain unit, and it's working with S&P Global Commodity ...