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Regulation drives ESG advice boom

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... mandatory sustainability disclosure laws. The first tranche of large corporates and financial firms must report their carbon emissions starting this year, with progressively smaller entities to follow over the next two years. Entities with a consolidated ...

Young investors' appetite for ESG investing dwindles: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... 33% of young investors said they'd be willing to lose more than 10% of their retirement savings to improve carbon emissions and develop renewable energy technologies - by 2024, just 10% said the same. Meantime, Cerulli's research found 44% of ...

No charge for carbon target failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... missed climate targets, the research published in Nature Climate Change found. Nearly 10% of the 1041 firms that set 2020 emissions targets failed to achieve those targets. Even more concerning, a third of 2020 emissions targets simply vanished altogether. ...

NAB backs green bank for Aussie farmers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... million asset finance partnership with NAB to help Aussie farmers upgrade their vehicles and equipment to drive down emissions. Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will support discounted interest rates for eligible borrowers to lower the emissions ...

Looming climate audits expose talent crunch

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... reasonable assurance over the transitional period. Entities will start with limited assurance, focusing on Scope 1 and 2 emissions and more complex areas like scenario analysis being slowly phased in over several years, giving companies time to adapt. ...

Green bank returns $5.4bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... transactions to 380 since inception in 2012. The CEFC is required to invest in renewables, energy efficiency and low emissions technologies, to "facilitate increased flows of finance into the clean energy sector and... greenhouse gas emissions reduction ...

Trump Paris exit "bad news" for rest of world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... climate change isn't a priority". Other countries could potentially follow suit. "Overall, this is bad news for global emissions," Ashton said. "It reinforces Trump's desire and campaign comments to move away from renewable energy and ramp up fossil ...

Green aluminium gets $2bn boost

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... economic planning and investment in industries that will secure Australia's future prosperity." Meanwhile, Beyond Zero Emissions chief executive Heidi Lee said the move by the government is a game-changer. "Beyond Zero Emissions has long advocated for ...

CEFC invests $100m into affordable housing strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... AXA IM Alts head of Australia Antoine Mesnage said. CEFC chief executive Ian Learmonth said: "To effectively reduce emissions in the property sector, sustainability needs to be at the heart of all developments. Tenants can face challenges in implementing ...

ESG linked to pay in top APAC listed firms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... metrics in APAC are social (62%), diversity and inclusion (59%), and environmental (42%). Just 30% used GHG or carbon emissions measures including Scope 3 emissions. Climate-linked pay largely fails to achieve results, a study last year from the Investor ...