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Australian businesses failing to achieve on sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
Although Australian business leaders rank sustainability as being high in their organisational corporate structure, only 35% of businesses have achieved set sustainability targets over the past two years, according to Cognizant. The IT services and ...

Go digital for ESG, financial reporting: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... Access Economics partner and lead author John O'Mahony. "The risk for Australia is that it is hard to find out what Australian companies are up to," O'Mahony said. "In the words of one CFO in Australia, it can run the risk of making Australia ...

Corporates to begin adopting final TNFD recommendations

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... start locating and evaluating under the LEAP framework." Nature loss is predicted to wipe up to US$20 billion from the Australian economy annually by 2050, according to research by WWF. ACSI CEO Louise Davidson commented that dealing with complicated ...

Responsible investment AUM declines but uptake increases: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... renewable energy, human rights, biodiversity and sustainable water management. Leah Willis, head of client relationships at Australian Ethical Investment also highlighted "maturity" as a theme in this year's report. "I think it's important to ...

Impact investment unlocks land finance for Traditional Owners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... through this deal. "The unique element is that this loan is to designed to be repaid through the proceeds of selling Australian Carbon Credit Units, not selling the land or any other revenues," Wood said. "The impact was first class and really something ...

Investors eye opportunities in Housing Australia Future Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... chance to aggregate the debt and institutional capital is a debt partner." Under the Housing Australia Future Fund, the Australian government will borrow $10 billion to invest in equity markets. The Future Fund will manage the investment of those funds. ...

Business climate action "irreversible": Combet

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... to take the community with us." Combet's comments are backed by the findings of CMI's CMI's 8 th annual Australian Business Climate survey, measuring the views of 301 respondents, 61% of whom were senior executives, C-Suite or board members. ...

Australian Unity inks sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
Australian Unity has signed a $50 million sustainability linked loan (SLL), linked to performance against the company's Community and Social Value (CSV) Framework. The announcement comes as the wellbeing provider announces a total $1.76 billion ...

Appointment round-up: TelstraSuper, CSIRO, FRRR

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... and has previously been a member of the Cultural Heritage Risk Management Working Group and a council member at the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors and ESG manager - investment stewardship at the Victorian Funds Management Corporation ...

TelstraSuper augments sustainable investment team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... and has previously been a member of the Cultural Heritage Risk Management Working Group and a council member at the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors and ESG manager - investment stewardship at the Victorian Funds Management Corporation ...