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Green moves: Aware Super, Minderoo Foundation

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... management business. Bradshaw is a former member of a PRI advisory committee tasked with designing a stewardship initiative for nature. Last November, CareSuper merged with Spirit Super to create a super fund worth $53 billion. Meantime, Andrew 'Twiggy' ...

Countdown to RIAA conference is on

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... investing across asset classes, featuring panelist Kristina Hermanson, head of APAC and Africa at Nuveen Natural Capital. With nature and biodiversity touted as the gargantuan sustainability issue alongside climate change, Hermanson will be sharing her ...

Green moves: Alphinity, Australian Ethical, Climate Change Authority

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... natural capital, human rights, and social impact. She advises businesses and governments on issues such as climate change, nature conservation, anti-slavery initiatives, and gambling-related harm. Toohill has previously co-chaired the UN Environment ...

Investors progress on climate, but barriers emerge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... they're hungry for attractive opportunities across renewables, battery storage, green infrastructure and transport, and even nature-based solutions. "But it's a mixed picture in the shorter term: the risk/return outlook for local climate solutions has ...

ASIC releases sustainability reporting guidelines

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... make updates. It also said it will more likely commence an investigation where it sees misconduct of a serious or reckless nature, or where an entity fails to produce a report. "Climate-related financial information that is consistent, comparable and ...

Active Super to pay $10.5m for greenwashing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... fund's "contraventions were serious" after it benefitted from its misleading conduct by misrepresenting the "ethical" nature of a significant part of its investments, following the guilty verdict handed down last June. This enhanced its ability to ...

Podcast: Harnessing synthetic biology for sustainable mining and pollution mitigation

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
In this episode of The Greener Way, guest host Michelle Baltazar interviews Nicole Richards, chief executive of Allonnia, about the company's use of synthetic biology to address sustainability issues. The discussion covers Allonnia's work in ...

Family offices share sustainable investment preferences

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... invested in wind power generation, but 14% are interested in its potential. Having so far attracted the least investment is nature restoration, such as rewilding or nature conservation, with just 7% invested. That said, 16% said they were interested ...

UniSuper waters down 'volatile' environmental option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... change will be lowering the threshold for companies to qualify for inclusion in the strategy. "Due to the concentrated nature of GEO's investment universe, its investment returns have been volatile," UniSuper said. "UniSuper has been exploring ways to ...

Australia's ecosystems get a dollar value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has measured local "ecosystem services" - nature's contributions to the economy and other human activity. The most valuable service identified was climate regulation through carbon storage. Australia's ecosystems ...