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Green moves: CSIRO, Ethinvest, Social Enterprise Australia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... institutions - including heading up innovation initiatives within Bendigo Bank's wealth division. Here, he helped embed sustainability and customer-led design into financial services. Commenting on the new role, Medcalf said UNLESS exists to help clients ...

NAB Foundation launches Impact Investing Fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The NAB Foundation created a $50 million impact fund to invest in areas that align to the bank's sustainability priorities, like Indigenous economic advancement, social and affordable housing, and the climate transition. The new Impact Investing ...

Impact investing needs instos to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... force, the first day of the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific heard this morning. Rachel Halpern, the head of sustainability at JANA Investment Advisers, stressed the need for institutional capital to be deployed to impact investing. "We must have ...

Agtech for Earth and space gets backing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... said: "Investing in Gaia Project Australia aligns with our mission to support groundbreaking innovation that drives sustainability and economic growth." "Through our University Innovation Program and partnership with La Trobe's Eagle Fund, we are helping ...

Green technology, clean energy receive Budget boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) said there is a "noticeable absence" of measures on sustainable finance and broader sustainability agenda in the Budget comparing to the previous two years. ASFI lamented there was no new spending allocated for Australia's ...

Mandatory sustainability reporting in Australia

ALETTA BOSHOFF  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The Australian government has finally fulfilled its promise to mandate sustainability reporting in Australia. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and Other Measures) Bill 2024 (Bill) passed through both Houses of Parliament ...

Disclosure of climate risks doubles in four years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... story, not just what's in the balance sheet or profit and loss statement. Accountants play an important role in sustainability and climate reporting that enables investment and business decision making. It's about the long-term environmental impact ...

UBS delays climate target to 2035

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... flagged it is scrapping its mission to align 20% of total assets within its asset management unit to net zero. In its Sustainability Report 2024 released this week, the global bank said it revised targets to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions to net zero ...

5000 European ESG funds investing in fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... proportion of sustainable investments based on the specific ESG terms used in a fund name; the terms being environment, sustainability, impact, transition, social, and governance. For example, funds with the 'ESG' or 'SRI' in their name ...

Podcast: Understanding climate reporting

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
In this episode of The Greener Way, host Michelle Baltazar, director of media at FS Sustainability, discusses the newly implemented climate-related financial disclosure standards in Australia with Nicholas Guest, co-lead of HLB Mann Judd's Sustainability ...