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CBA slashes oil and gas financing

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... dumped by the Commonwealth Bank unless the company can provide a credible climate transition plan aligned with the Paris Agreement." The bank made a $10.1 billion net profit in FY25, up 8% year on year. "This year we have continued to execute our strategic ...

Australia has 'incredible opportunity' to lead in clean energy: UN

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... delivering the highest possible ambition for Australia's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. "Strengthening transparency and accountability is essential to unlocking the full economic potential of climate action, here ...

UK ditches sustainable finance taxonomy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... manifesto commitment on the development and implementation of transition plans that align with the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement. HM Treasury argued in its report that the aim of developing a taxonomy for sustainable activities is to facilitate ...

ISS STOXX launches Sovereign Climate Impact Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... reporting initiatives, while supporting investors to aligning their portfolios to the 1.5°C trajectory and the Paris Agreement. Financial Standard and its publisher Rainmaker Information are both part of ISS STOXX.

Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... inflationary pressures, they can potentially contradict Japan's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) under the Paris Agreement," the study said.

Climate investing declines amid Trump's anti-clean energy regime

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... support for net-zero goals, which is also reflected in an increasingly pessimistic expectation for achieving the Paris Agreement target to limit global warming to below 2 degrees. "Many feel they have made significant commitments toward achieving net ...

'Surreal', 'difficult' times for sustainable investors: RIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... colleague." Among the many anti-ESG steps Trump took as soon as he took power was to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He also revoked the Biden administration's US International ...

Macquarie shareholders call for transparency

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... Resources to develop dangerous fracking in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin, completely at odds with the Paris Agreement's goals to limit climate change." According to the resolution, Macquarie has arranged a $65 million financing package for ...

Sustainability in 2025

VIRGINIE DERUE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... particular. As widely expected, on his first day back in the White House, he signed an order to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement and moved to scrap oil and gas exploration restrictions. But irrespective of the political impulse in Washington ...

Podcast: Banking on the climate transition

THE GREENER WAY  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... why the fund manager is so committed to collaborating with Australia's big banks to ensure alignment with the Paris Agreement and improve data accuracy and transparency.