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SEC drops defence of climate disclosures rule

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The US regulator has voted to abandon its legal defence of a law that sought to force publicly traded companies to disclose their greenhouse emissions and other climate-related risks. The law required companies to disclose any climate-related risks ...

Green moves: CSIRO, Ethinvest, Social Enterprise Australia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Australia has a new chair, as does the CSIRO, while two former Ethinvest advisers have gone out on their own. Social Enterprise Australia has announced that Belinda Morrissey has stepped down as chair and was replaced by board member ...

Impact investing needs instos to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
While it has gained momentum in the last 15 years, impact investing still requires major backing from institutional investors and governments for it to scale and become a formidable force, the first day of the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific heard ...

Australia can be energy transition, climate leader

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Australia should seize the next four years as an opportunity to be a leader in climate investing and the energy transition by taking advantage of the US President Donald Trump's hardline anti-ESG stance, a panel of experts say. Australia has the ...

New gig for JP Morgan's AI guru

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Sydney-based Berowne Hlavaty has been appointed global head of applied AI and data science at JP Morgan, the financial services giant. After a long career in quantitative research strategy, Hlavaty is making a switch to an internal technology role where ...

Active Super PM opens asset consultant

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Active Super senior portfolio manager Ken Pholsena has launched an asset consultancy to help wholesale clients fine-tune their investment strategies across multiple asset classes. Pholsena spent 16 years at Active Super and its predecessor the Local ...

Green technology, clean energy receive Budget boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Aligned with the Future Made in Australia agenda, the government is continuing to invest billions into green technologies and the energy transition. The federal government has also allocated funding for innovative technology and clean energy manufacturing ...

Disclosure of climate risks doubles in four years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The number of companies reporting on the impact of climate risks in their financial statements has more than doubled in the last four years. That's according to a review of the financial statements of the largest companies from the ASX 200, 50 listed ...

UBS delays climate target to 2035

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
UBS has delayed its climate targets deadline to 2035 for its operations and flagged it is scrapping its mission to align 20% of total assets within its asset management unit to net zero. In its Sustainability Report 2024 released this week, the global ...

Quinbrook achieves record financing for solar, battery storage project

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has closed of a record debt financing of up to £238.5 million for Cleve Hill Solar Park - the UK's largest solar and battery storage project under construction. The 373 megawatts solar photovoltaics (Solar PV) and ...