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Avetta Partners develops new social responsibility risks tool

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
Avetta Partners, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, has launched the Avetta ESG Social Desktop Audit on the Avetta One platform to provide a digital assessment to identify, manage, and mitigate social responsibility risks in supply chains. The ...

More funding needed to modernise renewable energy infrastructure

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
As institutional investors continue to back the development of new solar farms and wind turbines, a critical avenue of decarbonisation is left sorely neglected, with Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) encouraging investors to shift their focus ...

Super moves: WATC, Medibank, HESTA, Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
Western Australian Treasury Corporation has appointed Mathew McCrum as head of markets. McCrum joins from U Ethical Investors, where he spent nine months as a fixed income consultant. Before that, he managed fixed interest at UniSuper and spent two ...

CEF calls out Whitehaven Coal over rising emissions

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Whitehaven Coal's growing coal mining operations in Australia are pushing its methane and fuel emissions up, raising concerns over its long-term climate liability, according to a new report. CarbonBridge and Climate Energy Finance (CEF) released the ...

System-level climate risks material in every way: Research

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
In partnership with the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) released its report Systems Stewardship: Managing Interconnected Climate Risks for Lasting Value. Drawing on interviews with IGCC members and ...

Embedding biodiversity risk assessments requires incentives: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
In partnership with Melbourne University's Biodiversity Institute, asset manager Franklin Templeton co-produced the Making money talk nicely: Biodiversity impact assessment for investors report. Findings outlined that portfolio impacts on biodiversity ...

Australia misses out on China's cleantech boom: CEF

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Australia is being overlooked by China's US$180 billon cleantech boom, according to Climate Energy Finance (CEF), warning this is putting the country's net zero and decarbonisation goals at risk. Since 2018, China's outward direct investment in Australia ...

Technology transforming biodiversity risk assessments

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Biodiversity impact assessment is emerging as a crucial framework among firms that strive to mitigate environmental impacts and provide comprehensive climate reporting data. Asset manager Franklin Templeton partnered with Melbourne University's ...

Stewardship initiatives rise in popularity among DC pension funds

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
According to a recent global peer study by the Thinking Ahead Institute (TAI) more DC pension funds are pursuing stewardship initiatives to combat climate change and achieve net-zero targets. TAI co-founder Roger Urwin revealed that large Australian ...

Biodiversity risk is transforming ESG reporting: Lonsec

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
Recent analysis by Lonsec of its fund managers indicates a sharp uptick in biodiversity related disclosures. Spanning a demographic of 300, the number of managers reporting a policy position on biodiversity has spiked, rising from 21 to 72 in the past ...