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Podcast: Mind the (climate skills) gap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... Organisation (CSIRO) Climate Science Centre to establish the current level of supply of climate skill in the Australian financial system, the demand for these skills, the barriers to increasing skills and how to support targeted upskilling. The report ...

Qualitas names Fiona Reynolds to ESG advisory board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... can bring a different perspective and knowledge. "Australia has world class banks and investment funds, a great financial system and this is what I want to be a part of." Australia should be positioning itself as a sustainable finance hub, Reynolds added. ...

Climate skills demand outstrips supply in finance: UTS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... Organisation (CSIRO) Climate Science Centre to establish the current level of supply of climate skill in the Australian financial system, the demand for these skills, the barriers to increasing skills and how to support targeted upskilling. The report ...

APRA publishes results of banking climate vulnerability assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... risk impacts using two of the six internationally recognised scenarios developed by the Network for Greening the Financial System - the first represented a future with a continued increase in global emissions to 2050 and beyond. The second explored a ...

Australia joins COP27 forests partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
Australia has become a founding member of the Forests and Climate Leaders Partnership, launched at COP27 this week, a move that emphasises the importance of forestry assets in climate mitigation. The UK-led voluntary partnership was formally launched ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation turns 10

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... have world-leading potential in renewable energy, green hydrogen and critical minerals. "Our strong and stable financial system is giving us vital access to domestic and global capital, including the fast-growing pool of green capital seeking to preference ...

RBA warns of climate-related liability risk for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Kearns spoke at the Credit Law Conference this week and outlined the risks climate change poses to Australia's financial system, how they apply to different financial institutions and what regulators are doing to help participants in the financial system ...

Financial inclusion as risk and opportunity: Principal Financial Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
Financial exclusion is both a global risk and an opportunity, with Principal Financial Group announcing it is establishing an index to undercover key drivers of financial exclusion in more than 40 markets. The Global Financial Inclusion Index is being ...

RBA deputy governor to join Fortescue Future Industries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... wish him all the best in his new position." Last year, Debelle called climate change "a first-order risk for the financial system", with broad-ranging impacts on Australia. Debelle also warned while there has only been "isolated examples" of divestment ...

Top 100 asset owners "hold keys" to net zero: Willis Towers Watson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... is financial risk. At COP26, APRA and RBA issued a joint statement as members of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a group of central banks and supervisors who share practices and contribute to the development of environment and climate ...