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No role for monetary policy to address climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... focused on corporate governance. One of the recommendations explicitly considered how the RBA should integrate climate change risks and impacts and whether monetary policy should used to address those risks and impacts. "The Review does not support a ...

IGCC calls on government to boost Aussie green industry

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Institutional investors, who collectively manage trillion of dollars, are poised to reap the rewards. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has released a white paper identifying green industry potential, based on analysis of five successful climate ...

Hong Kong stock exchange proposes climate disclosures

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... of listing Katherine Ng said the proposals will position Hong Kong as a trusted venue for capital raising. "With climate change being a global concern and focus, investors are demanding more information on how climate issues and related policy change ...

Modern slavery, just transition, tax key themes: Robeco

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... attend a series of meetings in Australia with government, including the Department of Energy, the Environment, Climate Change and Water (DEECCW). The company is currently considering sovereign engagement, with an entry point through government bond holdings. ...

Turning PV waste into investment opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... the materials used in PV. Deng is the Australian Photovoltaics Institute's representative on Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water's (DCCEEW) E-Stewardship working group, and represented Australia at the International ...

Fund Manager round up: Maple-Brown Abbot, Brookfield, Cultiv8

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... believe investors can help shape a better future," Rahmani said. "The challenges facing our society -including climate change, resource management, financial inequality and disparity in living standards - require purposeful capital investment to enable ...

The "Wild West" of "blue" investing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... moderator was Ocean Decade Australia co-founder Jas Chambers and speakers Nicky Landsbergen, partner with EY's climate change and sustainability services team, Ethinvest director of philanthropy Blair Palese, South Pole climate action head Thomas ...

Australian sustainable finance taxonomy to feature traffic-light system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... ASFI taxonomy framework report came through strongly in the final report, said Emma Herd, a partner at EY's Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) practice. "There's some debate around the sequencing and ordering of the development, with ...

Australia "on notice" as final TNFD draft framework released

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... lot faster than many in the business and wider community thought it would," said Emma Herd, a partner at EY's Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice. "We're actually seeing a pretty decent amount of engagement from the business community ...

Time is running out: latest IPCC report says 1.5°C is "likely"

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
The Australia Pacific region is particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) giving a stark warning that the world must act now to limit the worst effects. The IPCC has released its AR6 ...