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Good governance on cyber threats

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Principles include digital supply chain risk, data governance and regulatory and legislative shifts. "Over recent years, global conflicts and the evolution of cybercrime have seen new threats emerge, and Australian boards are consistently placing cyber ...

BNPP AM launches Future Forest Fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched a fund to meet global demand for sustainably managed timberland investments. The fund is classified Article 9 under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and will invest in sustainable ...

Green moves: Westpac, Care Super, BlackRock, Quinbrook, Ortec, CAA

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Also, in London at clean energy investor Quinbrook, UK pension expert Hilkka Komulainen succeeds Anne Foster as the new global head of sustainability and impact. She joins from the stewardship and investment team at Aegon UK, and prior to that worked ...

First Aussie circularity fund shoots for $1bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Boston Global inaugural Circular Future Fund (CFF) promises an economy where no resource goes to waste, with a goal of $1 billion FUM in the next five years. To launch the fund, the investment banker and family office teamed up with environmental organisation ...

Super funds set renewables targets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... those carbon budgets. "RealZero Check is about real, measurable progress toward genuine emissions reduction, setting a new global standard for responsible investing and climate accountability," Future Group chief executive Simon Sheikh said. "Furthermore ...

New tool sniffs out greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Importantly, it also helps investors validate net zero claims. Using the One Earth Climate Model to compare portfolio emissions to global carbon budgets, it pinpoints the decarbonisation pace needed to achieve the Paris Agreement's 1.5C target. "RealZero ...

Podcast: How Trump will impact global clean energy and climate finance with Lachlan Carey

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Donald Trump's election victory has far-reaching implications for the clean energy sector and climate finance as a whole. Today, we jump in the time machine and take a look at the next four years under US President-elect Donald Trump, with our guest ...

ETFs recover and dominate

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... (28%) over 12 months. Vanguard Ethically Conscious International Shares Index ETF gained $149 million (22%), Dimensional Global Sustainability Trust (19%), Vanguard Ethically Conscious Aust. Shares Fund (95%), and Vanguard Int. Shares Select Index (58%). ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... and minister for finance Katy Gallagher said. "The Australian economy faces major structural shifts including from the global net zero transformation, technological and demographic change, and global fragmentation. "The Future Fund has made clear it ...

COP29 skirts diplomatic disaster

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Impact Research (PIK). It is now critical for the private and non-governmental sector to step up climate financing for the Global South in the absence of government commitments, said PIK climate economist Ottmar Edenhofer. "Global emissions must be reduced ...