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Green moves: CSIRO, Ethinvest, Social Enterprise Australia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Australia has a new chair, as does the CSIRO, while two former Ethinvest advisers have gone out on their own. Social Enterprise Australia has announced that Belinda Morrissey has stepped down as chair and was replaced by board member ...

NAB Foundation launches Impact Investing Fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The NAB Foundation created a $50 million impact fund to invest in areas that align to the bank's sustainability priorities, like Indigenous economic advancement, social and affordable housing, and the climate transition. The new Impact Investing ...

Australia can be energy transition, climate leader

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Australia should seize the next four years as an opportunity to be a leader in climate investing and the energy transition by taking advantage of the US President Donald Trump's hardline anti-ESG stance, a panel of experts say. Australia has the ...

Green technology, clean energy receive Budget boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Aligned with the Future Made in Australia agenda, the government is continuing to invest billions into green technologies and the energy transition. The federal government has also allocated funding for innovative technology and clean energy manufacturing ...

Mandatory sustainability reporting in Australia

ALETTA BOSHOFF  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The Australian government has finally fulfilled its promise to mandate sustainability reporting in Australia. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and Other Measures) Bill 2024 (Bill) passed through both Houses of Parliament ...

Disclosure of climate risks doubles in four years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The number of companies reporting on the impact of climate risks in their financial statements has more than doubled in the last four years. That's according to a review of the financial statements of the largest companies from the ASX 200, 50 listed ...

New fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Social purpose organisation Good Return has launched its second impact fund, aimed at supporting marginalised female entrepreneurs across the Asia-Pacific region. The evergreenfund is seeking to raise $10 million from Australian wholesale investors ...

UBS delays climate target to 2035

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
UBS has delayed its climate targets deadline to 2035 for its operations and flagged it is scrapping its mission to align 20% of total assets within its asset management unit to net zero. In its Sustainability Report 2024 released this week, the global ...

5000 European ESG funds investing in fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Close to 5000 European funds being marketed as ESG hold interests in companies involved in fossil fuels, research shows. Close to 5000 funds being marketed as ESG in Europe hold interests in companies involved in fossil fuels, research shows. Analysing ...

Podcast: Understanding climate reporting

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
In this episode of The Greener Way, host Michelle Baltazar, director of media at FS Sustainability, discusses the newly implemented climate-related financial disclosure standards in Australia with Nicholas Guest, co-lead of HLB Mann Judd's Sustainability ...