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Climate risk or opportunity for insurance sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian Insurance Council Roadmap to Net Zero urges insurers to implement a shadow carbon price, encourage innovative building materials for climate resilience, and capitalise on the large quantities of minerals required to capitalise on this transition. ...

ZEN Energy recruits new senior exec

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... establishing, investing, and managing infrastructure and energy-focused funds, overseeing credit exposure and market risk, and building new funds and businesses including renewable energy development platforms with a global remit, ZEN Noted. She has ...

Nature credits a potential bonanza for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... nature-based reporting into their strategies. This brings both risk and opportunity, and law firm Clayton Utz has published Building Biodiversity: Australian nature markets beyond the TNFD outlining the next steps required to harness the TNFD framework's ...

Public-private partnership to tackle VIC housing crisis

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... Flavio Macau commenting that the construction industry is currently grappling with soaring energy costs, while labour, building material and land are in short supply. RMIT economist David Hayward commented that the plan only provides for 250,000 new ...

Corporates to begin adopting final TNFD recommendations

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... Louise Davidson commented that dealing with complicated biodiversity and nature issues will require improved capacity-building, data collection and collaboration across sectors. "Nature loss needs to be arrested urgently. Ecosystems are enormously complex ...

BlackRock, SGX, and MSCI launch US$426M Singapore climate action ETF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... and implement low-carbon transition goals. The new fund will provide investors "with an innovative, unique and powerful building block to access companies in the region leading the transition," he said. SGX Group senior managing director and head of ...

Impact investment unlocks land finance for Traditional Owners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... KBRAC and the Traditional Owners are considering other economic and cultural projects. "We are focused on our Nation Building goals and aspirations and are actively planning on achieving these with a primary focus on creating pathways and opportunities ...

Mandatory sustainability calculator streamlines housing approvals

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
A mandatory new online tool lets users measure whether proposed major developments meet environmental sustainability requirements before they're approved for construction in Sydney. The Environmental Sustainability Calculator, created by the Georges ...

Australian Unity inks sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... empowerment, with $46 million attributed to social and economic opportunities through employment and $188 million attributed to building financial resilience. "Ultimately, our CSV is where we interact with the healthcare system," Vise said. "As a healthcare ...

Appointment round-up: TelstraSuper, CSIRO, FRRR

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... perspectives from their work in early-stage venture capital, academia, and startups that will prove invaluable as we continue building our portfolio. I am confident their knowledge and networks will be a tremendous asset to Main Sequence and the pioneering ...