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From Canva to carbon accounting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... a $2 million pre-seed funding from some very well-known tech investors, including Canva co-founder Cameron Adams. The business, too, has quickly gained the attention of well-known accounting brands that had the same dilemma. On its directory of more ...

Carbon price could stall $600bn super loss

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Michael Lebbon said. Lebbon argues that the only way to avoid this pitfall is to calculate the cost of carbon in every business decision. A standardised pricing signal would enable the finance sector to lend to and invest in the corporate sector, including ...

UniSuper defends APA stake amid member backlash

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... opportunity, estimated at $10 billion. UniSuper is a 9% shareholder of APA Group - an ASX-listed energy infrastructure business that owns and/or operates a $25 billion portfolio of energy assets in Australia. APA Group has plans to develop pipelines ...

Equality backslides for first time

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... our political and economic systems." Ahead of the launch the TISFD announced its co-chairs, including from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Oxford University, and UNESCO.

AXA IM battles poor data on road to net zero

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... portfolio by 49% since 2019, beating its 2025 target of -25%. Internally, it reduced its operational footprint (energy, business travels, mobility fleet) by 33% in the same time frame, also passing its 2025 target of 25%. AXA IM also announced it will ...

Clean energy approvals increase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Total added renewable energy capacity could jump by 50% by the end of the year, according to a new report. The Clean Energy Regulator's (CER) says capacity could reach as high as 7 gigawatts (GW) - that's enough to power nearly 5 million homes. CER's ...

Misleading ads rampant for sustainability jobs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Beware of sustainability jobs promoted as managerial roles when they are broadly accounting roles by another name, warns a recruiter. The announcement this week from the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) that it would make certain accounting ...

Green jobs: Societe Generale, Iress, U Ethical, CDP, TISFD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... his relocation from Brussels where he spent ten years at asset manager KBC Asset Management after teaching at a Belgian business school. De Bruycker brings experience in responsible investments and ESG initiatives, utilities sector analysis and stock ...

Green finance lags as planet on high alert

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... security, prosperity and equity. "By quantifying the boundaries for a healthy planet, we provide policy, economics and business with the tools needed to steer away from unmanageable risks." ASFI said Australia needs to move quickly to align regulation ...

Vanguard to pay $13m in greenwashing case brought by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... relevant period," Justice O'Bryan said. "It is an amount that exceeds Vanguard's annual profit for the whole of its business in FY18 and is similar in amount to Vanguard's annual profit for the whole of its business in FY19, in circumstances ...