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Podcast: Australia's role at COP15 with Andrew Petersen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... influx of new member applications and interest in attending COP27 primarily in the wake of the election of the new Labor government along with new legislation to increase carbon reductions to 43% and the possibility of Australia hosting COP31 Petersen ...

Carbon credits as a source of alpha: Apostle Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... carbon credits - which are administered by independent authorities - and compliance credits, which are issued by a government and regulated under law. "All markets play their role and have some function within the broader net zero challenge, but I think ...

COP15 success requires investor buy-in: Mirova

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
For the biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP15) to be a success, investors must come on board, according to the CEO of Mirova. Natural capital preservation is an investment theme that institutional investors should put time and resources into ...

Biodiversity market could hit $137bn by 2050: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... number of financial streams which could flow into a biodiversity market if one was created in Australia. It found that government expenditure ($8.5 billion), private capital investment ($78 billion), biodiversity related conservation charities ($11 billion) ...

TCorp reports $2 billion in new green, sustainability bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... sustainability bonds and two green bonds. With that issuance, TCorp has established the first ESG curve by an Australian semi-government issuer. The Sustainability Bond Programme was established in 2018, and it plays a role as NSW has set a net zero ...

Carve outs for faith-based super funds are dead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
The carve out from the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) performance test for faith-based funds has been axed by the government, despite it being an election policy. In December 2021, the government said it would adjust the performance test to account ...

Acacia Money hires former GetUp! CEO to exec team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... Michael Molitor as senior climate adviser, who has worked for organisations including McKinsey & Company, PwC and the NSW government. "2022 had two main focuses for Acacia," said Acacia founder and CEO Anil Sagaram. "The first was getting our core platform ...

Carbon markets, biodiversity on tap at COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
The state of further technical negotiations on areas like carbon markets and loss and damage are the subject of the second week of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh The aim of COP27 is, among other issues, to finalse the text of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement ...

Twiggy Forrest invests in Ukraine's post-war green future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... enter a golden era," Forrest said. "By business backing Ukraine, we're sending a message to the world. I want every government to know that as soon as hostilities cease global business will be ready to help rebuild immediately. "We will build a new ...

Trust in ethics plummets: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... again," she said. There are high ethical expectations for action on climate change, with the index showing the federal government and multinational corporations have the highest urgent ethical obligations to act ('urgent' score of 70), whereas ...