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ERM inks deal with Energetics

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
The world's largest pure play sustainability consultancy has signed up to buy an Aussie climate risk and energy transition consultancy for an undisclosed sum. The world's largest pure play sustainability consultancy has signed on the dotted line to ...

APRA acts on climate risk watch

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... voluntary survey of its regulated entities on the maturity of current practices against APRA's guidance on the financial risk of climate change. The information will inform a benchmark of progress on identifying, assessing and managing climate-related ...

Fintech group nabs ESG lead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Louisa Scott has started as director of ESG for Automic Group, the financial services tech platform. She joins an existing team which includes another director-level consultant in the Sydney office, Owen Morrison. It is part of a growth drive in the ...

Westpac looks for next CSO

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... across the economy, and across Australia, and globally." Toohill led ESG integration across the company and strengthened ESG risk and control frameworks. Sustainability disclosures are now led by finance, community and foundations are with corporate ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... through public statements - including from former chief executive Phil Stockwell - that it eliminated investments that posed a risk to the environment and the community, including gambling, coal mining, and oil tar sands. Court documents showed that ...

Podcast: Nature-related financial disclosures with TNFD's Tony Goldner

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Disclosures. With nature-positive the new buzzword at the top end of town, nature-related data is no longer a CSR issue. It is a risk management issue that has the potential to disrupt business plans, cash flows, and returns to investors. In this episode ...

Global investors unite for Climate Action 100+

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... to climate action, and called for action across the public and private sectors as well. They said climate and transition risk poses a systemic risk to the economy at large, which "virtually all companies - and thus investors - are affected by". "All ...

Data demand drives tech growth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... data and analysis that will need to be undertaken for upcoming mandatory reporting," Prins said. "Do you have litigation risk? Are your customers going to stop buying your product because it's too carbon intense? Where are you going to feel the pain? ...

Holdings fly in face of super duty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Aussie super funds' recent ramp up of fossil fuel holdings breaches their fiduciary duty and puts Australian retirements at risk, researchers say. Despite net zero by 2050 commitments, Australia's largest 30 super funds nearly doubled fossil fuel exposure ...

One in three analyse physical climate risk: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Approximately 87% of respondents were IGCC members. Nearly all investors have now set climate strategy and portfolio climate risk monitoring as a board level matter. 62% already align their climate reporting with international standards. Investors increasingly ...