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La Trobe University inks sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
A major Australian university has locked in a $195 million sustainability-linked loan (SLL) with interest rate savings being reinvested into an Indigenous accommodation scholarship fund and other initiatives. La Trobe University has refinanced existing ...

Investing during a disorderly transition: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Editorial note: This is the fourth in a six-part series of articles brought to you by Energetics Even if the world is able act sufficiently to contain climate change to 1.5 degrees of warming by 2050, there will still be degree of physical impact that ...

Nature-related risk a potential risk to directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Corporate directors have an obligation to consider nature-related risk in much the same way as other financial risks, according to a new legal opinion. Directors can take steps to identify and manage nature-related risks is the headline conclusion of ...

Preparing for COP28: nature and climate integration

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
As the world gears up for COP28, practitioners are preparing for a significant shift towards the integration of nature and climate in reporting. Evan Center, an expert in environment and climate change with the United Nations Global Compact Network ...

Treasury spruiks CEFC role in sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Treasury has proposed that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) take a key role in its recently announced sustainable finance strategy in delivering discounted financing to priority sectors as well as other aims. Earlier this month,Treasury released ...

NGFS introduces "too-little-too-late" climate scenario

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
The Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) has published new climate scenarios including predictions that a net zero transition could be "too-little-too-late," disorderly and delayed. The group, consisting ...

ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
An ANZ shareholder is taking the bank to court over allegations that it has failed to manage the material risks of climate change and biodiversity loss. Catherine Rossiter is a long-term shareholder of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. Rossiter ...

BlackRock backs world's largest direct air capture plant

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Air Capture." Blackrock's investment in a Texas-based project stands in contrast to actions by Texas state politicians to ban the fund manager. In 2022, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar banned local and state government entities doing business with firms ...

Deutsche Bank finances Taiwan's largest offshore wind farm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
German's largest banking institution has completed a deal-contingent interest rate hedge and tailored financing for Taiwan's largest offshore wind project to date. Upon completion the 1.0-gigawatt Hai Long, developed and owned by Canada's Northland ...

"Looming" governance gap as reporting becomes mandatory

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
The financial system is rushing to upskill on ESG as the concept becomes more integrated into the industry, with teams increasingly comprising of staff with specialist sustainability skills alongside traditional finance experience. ESG is becoming embedded ...