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Countdown to RIAA conference is on

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), has pulled industry heavyweights to the stage. This year, the annual RIAA conference will be held on May 28-29 at the Pyrmont Theatre at ICC Sydney, drawing hundreds of delegates from around the country. Past ...

Podcast: A year of progress

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... success of RIAA's Sustainable Classifications Initiative, and the AI toolkit for human rights. The RIAA annual conference is happening in Sydney on May 28-29, where crucial topics like global investment trends, policy impacts, and sustainable finance ...

Green technology, clean energy receive Budget boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... previous two years. ASFI lamented there was no new spending allocated for Australia's effort to host UN COP31 climate conference in 2026, which is an expensive task, it said, while pointing the budget restraint as an election strategy. "The government ...

Coalition's anti-ESG stance sparks investor backlash

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... it's creditworthy, then the bank should not be discriminating on any other basis." The comments were made at a press conference in the seat of Lyons, the largest electorate in Tasmania which Labor holds by a margin on 0.9%. This comes ahead of a federal ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... joining New Zealand Super. Brake is an experienced practitioner of TPA. The incoming NZ Super director recently told a conference that its edge over the strategic asset allocation comes from being long-term, nimble and innovative in portfolio construction. ...

Podcast: Everything you missed at COP29 climate conference with Richie Merzian

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
COP29, the 2024 UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, ran from November 11-22 in Azerbaijan. The main decision was how to pay for poorer nations' climate financing - decarbonisation, adaptation, and resilience to climate impacts - which ...

COP29 skirts diplomatic disaster

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
An eleventh-hour agreement on carbon markets was the major outcome of the world's largest climate conference which spiraled into an ineffective platform for international negotiation. After a decade of negotiations, parties agreed on Article 6 ...

COP fails to bridge yawning funding gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... countries are asking for more climate financing and wealthy nations debating how to pay for it. The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) runs from 11-22 November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. So far, COP29 chief executive Elnur Soltanov was caught ...

Climate adaptation presents $100bn opp: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... bank loans in vulnerable regions across the country, and new research from the IGCC and ERM Energetics unveiled at the conference found this is now flowing on to investors as well. The IPCC modelling is clear and presents very specific scenarios for ...

Is 'nature positive' the next big thing?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... impact of building a car park by planting trees elsewhere is unlikely to hold up as a credible nature-positive claim." Conference delegates heard that new global policies will encourage Australian companies to adopt nature-positive practices. These policies ...