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Music mecca hits the right note for nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
An iconic Aussie music festival is the first entity to invest in a new offering that kills two birds with one stone, as companies start understanding the link between carbon and nature. Asia-Pacific carbon offsets provider Tasman Environmental Markets ...

Veteran lawyer moves jobs

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Alex O'Mara has joined advisory and assurance provider O'Connor Marsden & Associates (OCM) as the new strategic ESG advisor. O'Mara is a senior advisor, lawyer, non-executive director, and senior executive, with experience in leading strategy ...

Ancient ideas fuel new strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
A new strategy seeks to move past compliance and risk management when it comes to Indigenous issues, and focus on climate resilience and responsible investing. Indigenous financial wellbeing organisation Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) recently ...

Shareholders to pressure supermarkets over seafood sourcing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Ethinvest, Ethical Investment Advisors, Ethical Partners Funds Management, and nonprofits Neighbours of Fish Farming, Environment Tasmania, Living Oceans Society and Ekō. "My expectation was that Woolworths would have acted prior to us putting a resolution ...

Podcast: Investing in low-carbon, energy-efficient green buildings with Davina Rooney

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... podcast. Davina is CEO of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) - a group helping steer Australia's built environment sector towards highly efficient, low carbon, healthier places that are future-focused and resilient. The GBCA's Climate ...

New forecasting tool for climate risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... wider society, planning becomes really problematic. "Over the last decade, rapid changes in the global regulatory environment mean many organisations will now be required to identify, measure, and report on the financial risks they face from a warming ...

KPMG prints first climate risk report

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... many challenges and opportunities - we are excited to participate and contribute to a resilient society, economy and environment." The firm now looks to expand climate reporting to Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Australian national chair Martin Sheppard ...

Green job moves: ACSI, Edge, Investa

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Australia's sunny shores and super fund prowess beckon a London-based ESG pro, as other sustainability whizzes switch roles. After nine years, Michael Hamblett has been snatched from Columbia Threadneedle Investments EMEA APAC, a global financial services ...

CommBank exits fossil fuels as rivals fund Santos

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
The once-largest fossil fuel lender has changed tack to become the first of the big banks to formally cut ties with coal, oil and gas without credible transition plans, ahead of schedule. Last year, Commonwealth Bank announced that from 2025 it would ...

Red alert for PFAS value chain

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... sectors which are crying out for viable alternatives to 'forever chemicals' that accumulate and do not break down in the environment and the human body - and cause serious health concerns including cancer and endocrine disruption. Alongside advisor Chronos ...