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Treasury spruiks CEFC role in sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... other financial institutions." The CEFC is a member of Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) and executive director Richard Lovell sits on one of the technical working groups. The strategy document pointed to the country's green investment ...

Call for investment to spur ethical fashion education

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... impact of their purchases but need the government and brands to make this process accessible to all." Free Slavery Free director Carolyn Kitto called for more investment in ethical businesses to help scale production and bring down costs: "The cost is ...

NGFS introduces "too-little-too-late" climate scenario

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... heat waves, floods and agricultural degradation of increasing frequency," Ravi Menon, chair of the NGFS and managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore commented. "The latest iteration of the NGFS scenarios thus incorporates acute physical ...

New Forests to sell NZ assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... efficiencies, and added sustainability metrics to improve the overall health of the assets," said New Forests managing director, Australia and New Zealand David Shelton. "Forestry is an important industry for New Zealand, contributing to the economy ...

Warakirri launches Sustainability Broadacre Cropping Strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... comingled national cropping strategy for a select group of like-minded institutional investors," Adrian Goonan, investment director for agriculture at Warakirri told FS Sustainability. "We continue to see strong investor appetite for large scale agricultural ...

ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
An ANZ shareholder is taking the bank to court over allegations that it has failed to manage the material risks of climate change and biodiversity loss. Catherine Rossiter is a long-term shareholder of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. Rossiter ...

"Looming" governance gap as reporting becomes mandatory

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... assessed on ESG-linked non-financial key performance indicators (KPIs), firms are being faced with a skills gap at a director level, researchers found. "It's not just a skills gap, but a capacity gap," The Action Exchange co-founder Jessica Brown ...

Mirova targets super funds in multi-billion dollar raise

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... and to offer it to institutional investors wishing to contribute to the fight against global warming," Mirova managing director of energy transition funds Raphaël Lance said.

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Treasury's proposed three-year moratorium on private litigation related to Scope 3 reporting as part of its proposed mandatory climate-related financial disclosure package has raised fears that it would give companies the green light to greenwash. ...

Treasury launches sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... concentrated in specific regions and industries. University of Technology Sydney Institute for Sustainable Futures research director Gordon Noble reiterated that the strategy is welcome but a catch-up. "The analogy is like the peloton," Noble said. "Because ...