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AOFM launches first Green Treasury Bond

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... focus on current and forward-looking expenditure, exclusion categories, [and] plans for ongoing reporting, including on social co-benefits where possible." The bond will finance renewable energy rollout, energy efficiency, upgrades, EV and core electric ...

Sustainable Finance Taxonomy open for consultation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... transport, and agriculture and land use. It will also consult on a 'Do No Significant Harm' framework, minimum social safeguards, and the proposed use cases and rule set advising taxonomy users on how they can demonstrate alignment with the t ...

Podcast: Disability inclusion - the missing piece of ESG investing with Corene Strauss

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Around one in six (18%) people in Australia live with a disability - around 4.4 million people - and roughly 90% of those have 'invisible' or 'hidden' disabilities. Australians living with a disability have so much to offer organisations. ...

ESG demand still high for advisers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Financial advisers find sustainable investments appealing to many of their clients, despite ongoing cost-of-living pressures and political differences. Ethical investment leaders spoke at the Financial Standard's inaugural Future Investing Forum ...

The 50 most influential ESG corporate professionals in Australia named

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
The 50 most influential environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) professionals working at ASX-listed companies have been named by trade publication FS Sustainability in the 2024 ESG Power50 guide. Running for the second year, the ESG Power50 ...

More funding necessary to fix housing crisis

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... for the Housing Australia Future Fund, $5.5 bn for the Help to Buy scheme, $3 bn for the New Homes Bonus, $2 bn for the Social Housing Accelerator, $2.7 bn to increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance by 15%, and $2 bn for social and affordable rental homes. ...

ESG fund performance leans on growth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Index (ACWI), the global equity index. Beyond this, it targets "a positive impact on the most important environmental and social challenges faced through both investment and engagement." The strategy "does not expose investors to excessive style bias ...

Budget 2024: Additional $11.3bn promised for housing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... bit," Treasurer Jim Chalmers said. "Tonight's Budget delivers an additional $1.9 billion in loans to help build 40,000 social and affordable homes. We have also secured the national housing agreement, which would otherwise have run out." Earlier ...

Member accuses UniSuper of greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... We see Transurban as having strong business standards and practices as well as a considered approach to environmental, social and governance issues." "In our 2023 Climate report we gave Transurban our highest rating for its emissions reductions targets ...

Doing better on First Nations heritage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... cultural heritage. It's up to business, it's up to investors to go the difference, as in so many other areas of social endeavor, to go beyond the pathetic legislation that we have in this country to protect our cultural heritage."