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Frasers Property Australia establishes Sustainable Finance Framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Property Treasury Pte Ltd. The decision to develop a whole of business framework for addressing green development and green finance is part of the company's business strategy, Boyd said. "We've raised a number of loans that in this space," he said. "This ...

Genex Power closes $192 million certified green debt funding package

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... but what it opened up is that it allows us to tap into the huge appetite of banks and equity companies to provide green finance," he said. "We found that if you can be independently certified as being green, banks are very keen to lend to us, and because ...

Amundi focuses on green private credit market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... with other stakeholders to develop standards to define green credit. This will consist of a scientific committee of green finance to "define and promote environmental guidelines for these three markets in line with international best practice and legislation ...

Foresight Group launches Foresight Renwable Energy Income Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... the Carbon Trust. "The transition to a low carbon sustainable economy will require significant access to new and green finance, so it is particularly exciting to see an innovation in the market that allows wholesale individual investors to participate ...

Australia's green bond issuance tops $15 billion: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... Initiative has released its Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities Australia 2019 (GIIO) report, as well as the Green Finance State of the Market Australia (SoTM) 2019 report. The SoTM report that cumulative domestic green bond issuance reached ...

QIC Shopping Centre Fund issues $300m certified green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... manage on behalf of our investors." The issuance of the QSCF bond "represents another step in the mainstreaming of green finance and sustainability" in built environment assets, said Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative. "Australia's property ...

Global issuance of green bonds tops $100 billion to date in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... group on sustainable finance (TEG) process will "help open the 2020s path towards the vital first trillion in annual green finance investment. " "The common definitions that the EU Taxonomy provide across broad sectors of the real economy, opens the ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund receives new loan facility, new name

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... $400 million green bond to finance the Woolworths 2020 sustainability strategy as signs of the growth in demand for green finance. "With this facility, we can do loans between ten thousand dollars and $20 million," Bocskay said. "Eighteen months ago ...

Woolworths Group to become first Australian retailer to issue Green Bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... and assets that deliver positive environmental and climate outcomes while also contributing to the development of green finance and Green Bond markets." Woolworths noted that its Green Bond Framework has initially been independently assured as to its ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... is modelled on groups including the European Union's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the UK's Green Finance Taskforce, as well as initiatives in Norway and Canada, while broadening the remit to include the Sustainable Development Goals ...