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Sustainability in 2025

VIRGINIE DERUE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... alone costing them between 5% to 25% of earnings. What's more, higher cost pressures from carbon pricing or comparable regulation could create additional costs equivalent to 50% of earnings in certain emission-intensive sectors. Unfortunately, the current ...

PE left 3bn tonnes of emissions: Emmi

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... to have made climate commitments and will also require an understanding of the financial cost of a carbon price or regulation on the valuation of the company," Emmi said. Previous Emmi research found that the global fixed income debt market faces significant ...

5000 European ESG funds investing in fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Chase in the lead, followed by DWS, BlackRock, Allianz, and UBS. With an overhaul of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation due for the end of this year, Urgewald's Fiona Hauke said the EU should "show more ambition" in regulating funds with ...

SSGA abandons gender diversity targets

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has ditched its gender diversity efforts eight years after it championed the Fearless Girl campaign, which pushed for the representation of women in senior leadership positions. SSGA previously pushed for listed companies ...

Australia's ecosystems get a dollar value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... - nature's contributions to the economy and other human activity. The most valuable service identified was climate regulation through carbon storage. Australia's ecosystems store 34.6 million kilotonnes of carbon, valued at $43.2 billion. Grasslands ...

BlackRock moves on natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The world's largest asset manager has quietly acknowledged that natural capital is now an investable asset, not an externality. Traditionally, environmental factors like water, land, and biodiversity were seen as externalities - important, yet separate ...

Universities jump on ESG skills shortage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... in professional settings, show how quickly Australia's corporate landscape is shifting in response to new government regulation. Academic and lawyer Tim Bowley said the new Monash course covers the legalities of ESG at large corporations. Bowley previously ...

Consultancies jump on skills gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Safety company UL Solutions and OpenEngagement, a stakeholder engagement and governance advisory firm, are partnering to help firms prepare mandatory climate reports as consultancies experience growing demand amid a talent shortfall. UL Solutions will ...

Investors must take a long-term view: Robeco

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... innovations and scalable solutions." Government interventions like the EU Green Agenda, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the directive on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) are critical. Robeco believes net zero initiatives ...

Regulation drives ESG advice boom

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Information Services Group (ISG). A doubling down of sustainability initiatives amid growing climate awareness and regulation has corporates rushing to comply with mandatory sustainability disclosure laws. The first tranche of large corporates and financial ...