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Canberra's new plan a winner for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Albanese's Future Made in Australia Act is a much-needed signal to promote competition, resiliency, productivity, and attract capital, investors say. The new on-shore manufacturing laws give the green light for superannuation funds and other institutional ...

Three innovations to fix carbon market

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024  |  NEWS
With effective risk management and capital allocation, Australia's carbon market can scale to become the biggest in the world, Westpac and the Carbon Market Institute (CMI) say. Companies are shifting from a focus on carbon neutrality to net zero alignment ...

Rest teams up with Fidelity to launch new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... key markets including France, Germany, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The investment also brings Rest closer to its target of achieving a 1% allocation to impact investments across its total portfolio by 2026. Decarbonising operations was becoming ...

Upskill needed as mandatory reporting looms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Australian businesses and financiers face significant challenges in reporting on sustainability - a technical skill that is essential to meet climate targets and ensure a smooth and effective transition to net zero. Both government and high education ...

Borrowers pressured for plans as Scope 3 left in dust

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... maintaining energy security, increasing resiliency and sustaining economic opportunity around the world." Citi has a net zero target - including for businesses it finances - by 2050. This comes as the 2024 proxy season and AGM's are well underway, with ...

Shared Value founder heads up regional alliance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
Helen Steel, who founded and led Shared Value Project (SVP), the business impact group, for almost seven years, now takes her experience to regional collaboration efforts. Steel now announces she has joined the South East Councils Climate Change Alliance ...

Nature taskforce announces leadership overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... honour". "I am particularly delighted that the final recommendations serve as a mechanism to operationalise the objective of Target 15 of the Global Biodiversity Framework," she said. "In just over two years, we have delivered the recommendations and ...

Deutsche Bank links 33% of long-term bonuses to non-financial targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... cement, and shipping. This covers 54% of the bank's financed emissions. The bank is eyeing further expansion, with plans to target two additional sectors this year. The bank also outlined progress on its sustainability agenda and targets, including governance ...

Execs sceptical of 2050 net zero goal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... dioxide (CO2) need to fall by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero by around 2050. Australia's net zero by 2050 target was legislated in 2022. The global survey of over 600 energy and natural resources executives by management consulting firm ...

CBA launches green business loan

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... individual project, asset or funding needs. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (CBA) 2030 Sustainability Funding Target (SFT) aims to deliver $70 billion in cumulative funding across sustainable industries and asset types including clean energy ...