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Investor Group on Climate Change creates executive leadership position

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) and co-chaired the Technical Working Group in the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative (ASFI's) initial roadmap process. "As someone who has always been motivated by the potential for impact ...

Podcast: Mind the (climate skills) gap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... targeted upskilling. The report concluded that the current climate skills gap is likely to grow. In surveying 71 sustainable finance professionals in Australia, "more than three quarters of respondents say that climate skills are in moderate to high ...

Qualitas names Fiona Reynolds to ESG advisory board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... great financial system and this is what I want to be a part of." Australia should be positioning itself as a sustainable finance hub, Reynolds added. "People talk about Australia being a renewable energy powerhouse, and of course we should be that," ...

CFA Societies in call for uniform ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... complementary guidance to regulatory regimes extends to Australia and the taxonomy work of the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI). "CFA Institute is leading some of the work globally - the institute, along with the Global Sustainable Investment ...

APAC outperforms amid global sustainable finance pullback

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
Sustainable finance showed global declines across all categories in 2022, however, activity in Asia Pacific remained robust, according to research from Refinitiv. Refinitiv has issued its Sustainable Finance Review for 2022, which found that sustainable ...

ASFI outlines roadmap for sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) has made key recommendations on a sustainable finance taxonomy that is science-based, usable, operates with other international jurisdictions and meets the need of the Australian economic context. ...

ANZ leads issuance of US$50m gender-lens bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... the orange bond principle go a bit beyond what is currently in the market in terms of criteria," said ANZ sustainable finance director Mara Chiorean. "We really wanted to use the same mechanism that has been very successfully used on the green side - ...

Climate skills demand outstrips supply in finance: UTS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... targeted upskilling. The report concluded that the current climate skills gap is likely to grow. In surveying 71 sustainable finance professionals in Australia, "more than three quarters of respondents say that climate skills are in moderate to high ...

Australia to introduce mandatory climate reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... will seek to introduce mandatory climate risk reporting standards as a first step towards a more ambitious sustainable finance strategy next year. Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a consultation paper on climate risk reporting standards at a Sydney speech ...

ASIC warns directors over sustainability disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds and green bonds. ASIC commissioner Sean Hughes has said that effective regulatory frameworks for sustainable finance "continues to be a key theme and strategic priority in 2023" for regulators around the world, including ASIC. "Although ...