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Universities jump on ESG skills shortage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Intelligence now offer short courses on ESG for business leaders and professionals preparing their company's mandatory climate-related reporting. The new courses, designed for application in professional settings, show how quickly Australia's corporate ...

SBTi seeks feedback on Corporate Net Zero Standard

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Corporate Net Zero Standard in 2021. "When we launched... there was no consistent definition of net-zero in corporate climate target-setting," he said. "We have come a long way since then - today more than 1500 businesses have net-zero aligned targets." ...

Consultancies jump on skills gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... OpenEngagement, a stakeholder engagement and governance advisory firm, are partnering to help firms prepare mandatory climate reports as consultancies experience growing demand amid a talent shortfall. UL Solutions will provide ESG advisory services ...

Asset managers react to news 2C is 'dead'

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Management are tightening their net zero portfolio alignment methodologies, sector transition pathways, and adaptation to climate change to reduce physical risk. HESTA and Alphinity - both of which are signed up to Paris-aligned asset manager initiatives ...

Investors must take a long-term view: Robeco

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... brakes on green ambitions, and current government policies are on course to a temperature rise of 2.9 degrees. The recent Climate COPs have failed to deliver meaningful progress, and the sharp upsurge in trade protectionism is limiting the uptake of ...

Green moves: HSBC, ACSI, Minderoo, The Superpower Institute, QLD Office of Social Impact, Terrain NRM

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... sustainability-related risk and opportunity. Prior to this, she worked at BHP for nearly 12 years in environmental sustainability and climate resilience. Minderoo said in a statement: "We believe in a future where healthy ecosystems are safeguarded for ...

Super moves: VFMC, QIC, Prime Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... ESG risks in portfolio construction, and sentiment analysis. For the three years before that, she published research on climate transition risk, investment, and portfolio construction for Ardea Investment Management as a quant research specialist. Previous ...

Local family office backs new venture to invest in climate tech

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The family office of Daniel Besen has become an anchor investor in new venture capital firm Climate Tech Partners, investing in "innovative software and hardware companies" accelerating decarbonisation. Climate Tech Partners was founded by Patrick Sieb ...

Investors and business leaders call for end to 'weak' net zero pledge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... progress." Signatories include Bernie Fraser, CSIRO, Morgan and Banks, Marinya Capital, Australian Impact Investments, Climate Capital Forum, Rewiring Australia, Climate Analytics, UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, Farmers for Climate Action, and ...

Carbon market responds to integrity concerns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, raise concerns around the methodology and integrity of large companies, such as Climate Friendly, operating the Human Induced Regeneration (HIR) method, which refers to revegetation of grazing land as a means of ...