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Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... "is an important measure that will support companies to develop their reporting maturity without undue fear of litigation risk" that will "incentivise entities to make high-quality disclosures on a best endeavours basis." A spokesperson told FS Sustainability ...

Treasury launches sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... banking sector and how the banks might respond to anticipated physical and transition risks. The results suggest that climate risk impacts are likely to be concentrated in specific regions and industries. University of Technology Sydney Institute for ...

A portfolio approach for renewable investment: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... tenant to achieving the goal of reducing carbon emissions in line limiting global warming to 1.5°C. But there is investment risk related to the timing of when renewable energy generation is dispatched and the impact it has on spot energy prices and ...

VIC SEC is back with $1 billion renewable target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... sufficiently. "The key challenge that the SEC has to actually work to crowd in private capital," Buckley said. "I think that risk is real, but it's more than outweighed by the benefits to the people of Victoria." The SEC should attract investment ...

Climate change a risk to financial stability: RBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... systematically important, and higher interest rate volatility. He further identified three "outside" risks - geopolitics, operational risk such as AI, cyber-risk and the use of cloud based technology and other services that banks and financial institutions ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Approximately $260 billion of all outstanding Australian bank loans, or 22% of bank lending, are highly exposed to nature-related risk. Ernst & Young Australia and the Australian Conservation Foundation released a report finding that banks that are invested ...

Treasury issues statement on systemic climate risk to government bonds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Treasury has acknowledged that climate is a systemic risk for the Australian economy and creates uncertainty about the fiscal impacts of climate change on government bonds. The federal court has approved a settlement between the Commonwealth and Kathleen ...

ESG factors increasingly drive financial decisions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... The primary factors now impacting investment decisions include ESG considerations such as materiality to reduce security risk (26%), ability to drive positive returns (19%), governance concerns (19%), climate risk (15%), and social risk (15%). 2023 saw ...

PRI to shake up reporting framework for signatories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is set to revamp its reporting mechanisms for signatories as part of new framework to help investors better define their responsible investment progression. PRI has launched the co-design process for the ...

Role for finance after No vote

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Nations groups need capital and capability development within the labour market to break down barriers to investment and de-risk. Capital needs to be harnessed towards Indigenous businesses, and they need to be thought of in commercial terms rather than ...