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CEFC, CBA finance plastic recycling facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... project a reality and advancing Australia's circular economy," said CBA group executive institutional banking and markets Andrew Hinchliff. "Our structured finance capabilities allowed us to tailor a bespoke solution that met the joint venture's objectives ...

ASX company issues billion dollar sustainability linked bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... into all transactions, not just labelled sustainability finance, said ANZ director - sustainable finance, capital markets Andrew Brown. "We are also doing a huge amount of vanilla/non ESG themed transactions in the domestic bond market, and increasingly ...

Charter Hall hires group head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Charter Hall has hired Andrew Cole as group head of ESG. Cole joins from Lendlease Funds Management Australia, where he was the general manager, sustainability for five years. While at Lendlease, Cole was responsible for developing and integrating the ...

Rest launches Sustainable Growth option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... investment leader, Calvert Research, to construct the Australian and Overseas equities portfolio of this new option," said Andrew Lill, chief investment officer, Rest. The equities portion of the option feature positive and negative screens. It screens ...

Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... carbon pricing for the raw material or product is equally applied to EU producers or third party exporters to EU, said Andrew Hedges, a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright who specialises in carbon markets. For example, sellers of steel to EU industries ...

Climate Action 100+ aviation engagement takes off

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... thing that I find really good about the sector strategy work is that it makes the engagement very clear and specific," said Andrew Gray, director of ESG and stewardship at AustralianSuper. "One of the things we've learned from engagement is that the ...

Biden inauguration brings climate challenge for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... across our communities?" Tackling climate change was a strong thematic in President Biden's inaugural speech, noted Andrew Petersen, CEO of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSDA). "What I was most focused on was how it ...

Victorian social housing commitment potential opportunity for impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
The Victorian state government has committed $5.3 billion to build social and community housing over the next four years, a move that could catalyse impact investment in social and affordable housing. Earlier this week, Premier Daniel Andrews announced ...

Climate change, SDG impacts of US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... system change - whether that's the energy system, the geopolitical, the national system, and the fiscal system," said Andrew Petersen, BCSDA CEO. "A stakeholder capitalism approach will play an increasingly important role in how business operates ...

Climate Bond Standard launches shipping criteria for bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... "The journey to sustainable shipping requires collaboration by like-minded peers across the shipping value chain," said Andrew Stephens, Sustainable Shipping Initiative, executive director. "The Climate Bonds Standard's newly launched shipping criteria ...