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Royal Adelaide Hospital locks in $2bn social, green loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... the first large scale hospital in Australia to achieve a 4 Star Green Star - Healthcare As Built rating from the Green Building Council of Australia in recognition of its sustainable design, construction and operation as well as fit out. This is the ...

Fund manager issues first Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... you can tailor to your operations. The two areas that it encourages to think about are your own workplace culture and building out cultural awareness and understanding, and looking at how you as an organisation procure looking at your supply base, your ...

CEFC, CBA finance plastic recycling facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... "Closing the loop between new and recycled packaging materials is critical to increasing the circularity of our economy and building a better Australia for future generations. Our research estimates that Australia's circularity rate stands at about five%. ...

IOSCO calls for comparable, reliable ESG reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... climate-related matters and then turn to developing standards that address other ESG topics. IOSCO also calls on ISSB to develop a "building blocks" approach that would facilitate flexibility with complementary reporting requirements, and also to build ...

ASX company issues billion dollar sustainability linked bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
A leading ASX100 company is issuing Australia's first sustainability-linked bond (SLB). Wesfarmers' $1 billion issuance will see the interest rate of the bonds linked to progress against specific renewable energy and emissions performance targets. ...

Charter Hall hires group head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... public policy creation. He is currently the chair of PCA's National Sustainability Roundtable, the chair of Green Building Council of Australia's Industry Advisory Group and a member of the Green Star Advisory Committee and is recognised for his ...

Role of oil and gas in net zero emission future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... Geologist of Texas, reminded the audience that access to reliable energy sources is key to development for many countries building stable and prosperous economies, and that fossil fuels have a role to play in that economic transition as do technologies ...

Oil and gas industry debate green hydrogen future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... problem is scaling hydrogen up to serve as an adequate replacement for fossil fuels like LNG, and May raised the issue that building hydrogen generation capacity might challenge social license to operate due to the need for desalinated water supply and ...

ASFI reports on momentum towards sustainable finance sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Companies in the financial sector are building momentum towards implementing the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative (ASFI), including aspects of integrating sustainability into day to day practice. ASFI has released its first momentum report ...

Integrating the circular economy into investment strategies: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Focusing on building a circular economy that integrates natural capital in terms of both costs and future benefits is a long-term investing strategy, according to American Century Investments. Linking increased focus on the circular economy to World ...