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CEFC, NGS, Minderoo back Adamantem fund

KARREN VERGARA | WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2023 | NEWS

Adamantem's Environment Opportunities Fund (EOF), backed by the likes of NGS Super and the Minderoo Foundation, announced its first close of $150 million. The fund targets businesses valued between $50 million and $100 million that help the transition ...

Finance responds to new ISSB standards

ROSE MARY PETRASS | TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023 | NEWS

The first ISSB standards dropped this week, with a range of reactions from investors and stakeholders in financial capital markets. The two new standards - IFRS S1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information ...

First two ISSB standards released - what investors need to know

ROSE MARY PETRASS | TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023 | NEWS

Investors' wishes have been granted with the release of the International Sustainability Standards Board's (ISSB) first two finalised standards - providing guidance for companies to disclose high quality ESG information to investors. The standards ...

Strong demand for green bonds: BNP Paribas Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS | TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023 | NEWS

While returns on green bonds experienced volatility in 2022 in concert with the broader fixed income asset class, strengthening yields and unabated interest in bonds with verifiable green use of proceeds means strong demand, according to BNP Paribas ...

Australia not ready for sustainability benchmarks, consultants warn

ROSE MARY PETRASS | MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023 | NEWS

Australia's sustainability agenda is not keeping up with new globally consistent sustainability reporting standards set to be released at the end of June, according to a national ESG consultant to Australian businesses. Two new voluntary sustainability ...

$20.5 billion cash infusion for Australia's green bank

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS | THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023 | NEWS

The federal government has allocated an additional $20.5 billion to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), with the first $11.5 billion on its way. The CEFC has also received three new investment priorities as the result of government legislation ...

New net zero bondholder stewardship guidance: IIGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS | THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023 | NEWS

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has published its Net Zero Bondholder Stewardship Guidance, offering corporate bondholders a foundational framework towards corporate bondholder stewardship. The guidance focuses on bondholder ...

Global development banks release joint principles towards Paris alignment

ROSE MARY PETRASS | THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023 | NEWS

Ten multilateral development banks (MDBs) have identified the financing activities most closely aligned with achieving the intent of the Paris Agreement while also defining financing coal- and peat-related activities as not aligned. The MDBs involved ...

Western Australia issues first green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS | WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2023 | NEWS

Western Australia has issued its inaugural green bond, with use of proceeds to support projects delivering environmental and decarbonisation outcomes. Western Australia Treasury Corporation (WATC) issued the 4.25% ten-year bond, which was "heavily oversubscribed" ...

CEFC backs agriculture investment platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS | WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2023 | NEWS

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and a Canadian state investment manager have co-invested in a platform aimed at assisting Australian farmers at decarbonising while boosting farm production. CDPQ (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) ...

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UN pension chief joins Northern Trust

JAMIE WILLIAMSON

The head of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund is taking on a new role at Northern Trust Asset Management.

Podcast: Exploring emerging markets and sustainability

THE GREENER WAY | 6:56AM

Pablo Berrutti, senior portfolio specialist at Stewart Investors, discusses emerging market investment opportunities and their main growth drivers.

Carbon emission stabilisation 'reframes' investment climate risk: Emmi

MATTHEW WAI

Latest modelling from Emmi indicates carbon emissions may plateau within the next two years before gradually declining, signalling the first ever emission stabilisation outside of an economic crisis.

Hollywood heavyweights call on pension fund to divest fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON

The likes of Sally Field, Mark Ruffalo and Jane Fonda are calling on the SAG-Producers Pension Plan to dump its holdings in oil and gas companies.

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