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Ratcheting up ambition on climate finance goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Editorial note: This is the first in a three part series of articles brought to you by Aviva Investors Next month's UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) is anticipated to set in motion accelerated action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement ...

Monetary Authority of Singapore hires chief sustainability officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has formed a new Sustainability Group and hired Darian McBain as chief sustainability officer. McBain joins MAS on 1 October. The new Sustainability Group led by McBain will steer sustainability efforts across ...

HESTA CEO joins corporate governance board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Blakey joins new chair, Henry Jones, president of the CalPERS in the US, directors Seiji Kawazoe, a senior stewardship office at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management in Tokyo, and Luz Rodriguez, a corporate governance professional at the Colorado Public ...

Merlon Capital hires sustainability manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... and sustainability team. Prior to working at TransGrid, she held roles at Deloitte Access Economics, the Australian Tax Office and the Reserve Bank of Australia. She holds a B. Applied Finance / B. Economics from Macquarie University and was a Macquarie ...

Assessing the financial, ESG benefits of agricultural investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Agricultural investments offer not only long-term diversified returns, but also the potential to use natural capital to impact on climate change as well as generate additional financial return. Warakirri Cropping chief executive officer and head of ...

Venture capital takes on impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Venture capital is pushing further into the impact investing sector, with one VC firm announcing a second impact fund while a second VC firm announces a responsible investment policy. Giant Leap, which pioneered the first impact VC fund in Australia ...

Santos sued over clean energy, net zero claims

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... misleading or deceptive conduct in potential contravention of both corporate and consumer law. The Environmental Defenders Office will act on behalf of ACCR, and ACCR will be represented in court by Noel Hutley SC, Sebastian Hartford-Davis and Jerome ...

Conscious Investment Management grows team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... spent more than a decade working on large and complex transactions. Jordan joins the Conscious Investment Management Sydney office from San Francisco where she was most recently the general counsel of Brookfield Technology Partners. Prior to that, she ...

Forrest reiterates call for net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Andrew Forrest joined the call for Australia to set a net zero 2050 target while announcing ambitious plans to produce green hydrogen through Fortescue Metals. Forrest spoke at Clean Energy Council digital event announcing their new public campaign ...

New Forests hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... announcement of Saleeba and Stewart's hires follow the appointments of former acting chief financial officer and chief operating Office at AMP Capital, Adrian Williams as New Forests' chief financial officer in January 2021, and Christine Loh (SBS, OBE) ...