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Fossil fuel funding down 20pc: study

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Sierra Club, Reclaim Finance, Urgewald, and the Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED). A group of more than 500 organisations in 69 countries ...

Podcast: Federal Budget, Climate Week, clean energy and the case for a price on carbon with Tim Buckley

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Climate Action Week. In this episode of The Greener Way, we hear from Tim Buckley, founder and director of Climate Energy Finance, a public interest pro bono think tank that produces research and analysis on accelerating the global energy transition. ...

CIM to develop ACCUs with Greening Australia

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Conscious Investment Management (CIM) has partnered with an environmental non-profit to jointly develop Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) under the environmental planting methodology. The first acquisition under the partnership will restore biodiversity ...

Budget 2024: A win for clean energy, not environment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... support and training, and $56m for Building Women's Careers. $17.3 million will expand Australia's sustainable finance taxonomy and create a labelling regime for sustainable products, and a further $1.3 million will develop guidance for best ...

Budget 2024: Regulators given boost to combat misconduct, cybersecurity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... APRA to combat greenwashing and other related financial misconduct and help further develop Australia's sustainable finance market. In a bid to promote the development of sustainable finance markets in Australia, the government is handing out close ...

ISSB digital standards not perfect

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... with positive response, not all in the industry are satisfied. Philip Tapsall, general manager at Climate Valuation and finance practice lead at XDI (Cross Dependency Initiative - part of The Climate Risk Group), says the ISSB sustainability standards ...

BlackRock-Temasek closes at US$1.4 bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... late-stage venture capital and growth private equity investment fund. The Decarbonization Partners Fund I, a Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) Article 9 fund, had a fundraising target of US$1 billion. Article 9 funds are products which ...

Closing the Gap in First Nations investing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... build trust through representation, there is a need for more Indigenous practitioners in higher level management in the finance sector. A mature investment ecosystem is necessary to support Indigenous-led initiatives, and embracing discomfort and taking ...

On biodiversity, a 143-year-old museum comes to the rescue

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... responsibility office of Federated Hermes. The session was moderated by Désirée Lucchese, an honorary associate from the finance department at UTS Business School and sustainability manager at MLC Life Insurance. On the topic of working with organisations ...

Greenwashing crackdown will boost ESG fund flows: ASIC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... before parliament to enforce accurate reporting around sustainability-related activities. "While the shift to sustainable finance may constitute a once-in-a-generation transformation, the fundamental underlying principles are as old as regulation itself ...