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State of the Environment report a wake up call for business, investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... Disclosures (TNFD) in Australia and New Zealand. The RIAA TNFD consultation group will bring together business, finance, public sector and civil society organisations to drive engagement in nature-related business and finance issues and the future adoption ...

RIAA tapped to run TNFD consultation group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... Disclosures (TNFD) in Australia and New Zealand. The RIAA TNFD consultation group will bring together business, finance, public sector and civil society organisations to drive engagement in nature-related business and finance issues and the future adoption ...

Moving to cloud brings financial and sustainability dividend: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... cloud-based technologies are "five times more energy efficient than the on-premises data centres of companies and public sector organisations in APAC, on average" and that annually, 4.5Mt CO2 emissions would be avoided if all businesses using on-premises ...

Leading Harvest to bring ag sustainability standard to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... with inaugural pilot program participants Manulife Investment Management Agriculture Services (Australia), Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), RRG Capital Management, Warakirri Asset Management and affiliate members Accounting ...

ARENA announces $100m funding round for grid-scale batteries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... renewable generation. "We've seen promising signs that advanced inverters can support system stability, but it's clear public sector investment is still needed to prove the technology at scale. We're confident that ARENA funding will help drive the uptake ...

TCorp recaps performance of $5.2 billion sustainability bond programme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
TCorp, the investment and financial management partner of the New South Wales (NSW) public sector, added $4.1 billion of eligible sustainable assets to its Sustainability Bond Programme in the 2021 financial year. In its most recent sustainability report ...

Australia needs 2035 net zero target: RMIT

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... Protocol, which is a global voluntary framework "to measure and manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private and public sector operations, value chains and mitigation actions," according to the GHG Protocol website. The report also recommends mandatory ...

SGX CEO calls for increased international collaboration on sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... decarbonisation and transition efforts. Exchanges also provide transparency, price discovery and liquidity. Governments and public sector organisations can further catalyse and accelerate some of these initiatives." Loh cited the recently announced initiative ...

Rainmaker tracks gender diversity of ESG super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... trusteed boards, up from 29.6% in 2016. Retail super fund boards had 38.9%, industry funds had 37.7% women on boards, public sector super funds had 43.5% women on boards and corporate super funds had 32.7% women on boards. HESTA, one of the top performing ...

Rainmaker reveals top performing ESG super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Almost three-quarters of these funds are not for profit (NFP) funds, meaning they are either corporate, industry or public sector funds, with the remaining 30% being retail funds. The ESG Superannuation Study also analysed five-year investment returns ...