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Investors welcome Commonwealth green bond program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... manager Gavin Goodhand. "It will also provide a greater understanding of what governments are doing around their sustainable finance agenda. That focuses the mind within government and within ministries as well because they're pulling in the same ...

Government to fund sustainable finance taxonomy development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Jim Chalmers has announced that the government will co-fund the initial development phase of an Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, in partnership with the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI). ASFI is the organising body working with ...

Hong Kong stock exchange proposes climate disclosures

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... achieve the commitment to mandate TCFD-aligned disclosures by 2025 as announced by the Hong Kong Green and Sustainable Finance Cross-Agency Steering Group. HKEX head of listing Katherine Ng said the proposals will position Hong Kong as a trusted venue ...

RIAA hires head of certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... as locally. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has identified strengthening action on greenwashing as a pillar of his sustainable finance strategy, particularly through product labelling. "This is why we are so pleased to bring in Shalini, who will be overseeing ...

Australian sustainable finance taxonomy to feature traffic-light system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... their alignment to sustainable activities. That is one of the recommendations to come from the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute's (ASFI) final taxonomy recommendations report. The report, based on public consultation on a taxonomy framework ...

Australia "on notice" as final TNFD draft framework released

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... recommendations". Parker said she expects the Australian Government to include TNFD as it develops its comprehensive Sustainable Finance Strategy and that mandated nature-related reporting may come soon after mandatory climate reporting is legislated. ...

Podcast: Greening corporate finance - Alison Chan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
In this episode, we speak with Metrics investment director - sustainable finance Alison Chan. Chan has packed a lot of career experience into a short amount of time and we going to talk the state of sustainable finance in Australia as well as the future ...

HSBC Australia hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... emissions for eight sectors and will announce more this year. HSBC reported facilitating $84.2 billion of sustainable finance and investments in 2022 as part of a sustainable financing ambition of $1 trillion by 2030. Within Australia, HSBC was the sustainability ...

Stafford Capital Partners launches sustainable timber impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... inclusive." The Stafford Carbon Offset Opportunity Fund is classified as an Article 9 impact fund under the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and will look to invest in afforestation, natural forest restoration and improved forest management ...

Frasers Property inks fresh sustainability-linked loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainability-linked financing for its Australia business," Leong said." This SLL is issued in accordance with FPA's Sustainable Finance Framework, which was launched in 2020. The framework provides overarching criteria and guideline, using the Global ...