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Private investment is the key to the green economic transition

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
At the recent Investment Group for Climate Change (IGCC) Annual Summit conference for 2025, Equip Super's head of responsible investment Jessie Pettigrew moderated a panel that discussed the sustainable investment opportunities in areas of regional ...

A new leader emerges in global energy transition

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
As China continues to flourish in renewable energy innovation, the nation may well take pole position amid the transition. Addressing the IGCC Summit 2025 in Sydney on Friday morning, Generation Investment Management founding partner and chair Al Gore ...

Carbon tax a 'missed opportunity': Debelle

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Funds SA chair Guy Debelle has told the IGCC Summit 2025 that numerous governments not going ahead with a carbon tax was a "missed opportunity". "The carbon tax wouldn't have been a bad thing to have done, but we lost a few Prime Ministers on the ...

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 ...

Gender equity boosts company performance, market value: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... strategies not only close pay gaps, but they also build stronger, more resilient workforces. By contrast, those that fail to act will continue to lose talent, eroding leadership pipelines," he said. For a company valued at $500 million, the modelling ...

UniSuper reduces its fossil fuel exposure

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
UniSuper reduced its fossil fuel investments to 1.8% in FY25, down from 2.4% the previous year. In its annual climate report, the super fund said it achieved this by decreasing exposure to oil and gas pipeline revenue through the sell-down of APA Group ...

Green moves: Carbon Markets Institute, Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
The Carbon Markets Institute has a new chief executive, while Cotality added a head of sustainability solutions and Future Fund welcomes an executive director of energy transition. Australia's sovereign wealth fund has appointed an experienced energy ...

IGCC launches climate resilience, governance guides

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... Inertia should be actively management and required change proactively overseen - board needs the capability and courage to act responsively, dynamically and progressively as the need arises to drive change within organisations Diverse skills and experience ...

Grattan calls for expanding Safeguard Mechanism to electricity sector

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Grattan Institute has recommended expansion of the Safeguard Mechanism, the federal government policy constraining emissions by big industry, to the electricity sector. The new report, Bills down, emissions down: A practical path to net-zero electricity ...

APRA names four focus areas for reconciliation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released its Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) for the period October 2025 to September 2027. This is the regulator's second Innovate RAP and third RAP since 2017. The latest RAP builds ...