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IFM Investors sets 2030 emissions target

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
The $174 billion manager owned by industry funds will reduce the carbon footprint of its infrastructure assets by 40% by 2030, as it heads down the path to net zero by 2050. IFM Investors has set its interim emissions reduction target for the infrastructure ...

Merlon Capital hires sustainability manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... roles at Deloitte Access Economics, the Australian Tax Office and the Reserve Bank of Australia. She holds a B. Applied Finance / B. Economics from Macquarie University and was a Macquarie University Merit Scholar. El-Khoury's hire is aligned with Merlon's ...

HSBC Australia to explore mangrove bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... two-year project builds on previous work conducted by Earth Security in collaboration with HSBC's Centre for Sustainable Finance and other global partners. This previous work identified the opportunity for municipal districts and cities to issue ...

NAB launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... organisations to set and meet ambitious sustainability improvement targets," said David Jenkins, global head of sustainable finance, National Australia Bank. "The financial incentive can be more material than it would be in the loan context by virtue ...

PRI augments Australian team with hires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... PRI's APAC policy work. Wiseman, a lawyer by training, joins PRI from ClientEarth, London, where he worked on the Climate Finance Initiative, using the law to drive corporate and financial decision-makers to address climate change-related risks ...

NSW Land Registry Services in $300m sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... and demonstrate a tangible link between sustainability and financial outcomes," said Eliza Mathews, head of sustainable finance, Westpac Institutional Bank. "These were identified by the company as areas that are material to them and the sustainability ...

Supermarket giant inks $1.3bn sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... long list of potential KPIs that could be possible for a sustainability linked loan," said ANZ director - sustainable finance Tania Smith. "We then worked with the Coles team to understand the historic data for those metrics, looking at peer comparisons ...

CEFC invests in specialist disability accommodation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has invested $87 million in a specialist disability accommodation (SDA) platform to accelerate the development of green housing solutions for people living with a disability. The CEFC has committed the investment ...

Significant cuts to industrial emissions required: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... financing risk, either along the lines of what the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) does, or what the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) does. "If you leave it as an obligation on industry, they will price into their investment decisions ...

Opinion: Mind the gap: Investors continue to stall on climate action, despite sentiment confirming its risks

DAVID KLAUSNER  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... institutions will need to develop environmental risk management frameworks and incorporate environmental risk considerations into finance and investment decisions. In stark contrast, regulators and policymakers in the United States have done much less ...