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Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... nationally or regionally, and the role of the Addis Adaba - Agreement on Financing Sustainable Development and related green finance agreements. But it is one of the important pieces, the part of a jigsaw in actually creating globalisation of sustainable ...

Australian funds join international controversial weapons call

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... Morningstar, MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices and STOXX. The initiative began in Switzerland and is coordinated by Swiss Sustainable Finance. It has gathered momentum due to a presence on the PRI Collaboration Platform. "Aligning investor portfolios to established ...

Teachers Mutual Bank receives RIAA certification for products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... account is certified," O'Connor noted. "We're really seeing that it's a shift from responsible investment to responsible finance, and the work we're doing at our membership base is reflecting that as well." RIAA Certification has been established as ...

IOSCO releases statement on ESG-related disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... investor and issuer movements with regards to ESG-related disclosures and noted that they had established a Sustainable Finance Network of securities regulators to "share their experiences and engage in focused discussions about developments in the market ...

Natixis joins the Climate Bonds Initiative Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... and distribution, and to double green business revenues by 2020," said Orith Azoulay, Global Head of Green & Sustainable Finance, Corporate & Investment Banking, Natixis. "As such, this partnership demonstrates, once again, our engagement to be very ...

Infrastructure Capital Group launches Australian Renewables Income Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... more than $150 million for its Australian Renewables Income Fund (ARIF), including $100 million from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). Tom Laidlaw, ICG managing director The $100 million investment from the CEFC is its largest equity investment ...

BlackRock Real Assets names Charlie Reid to lead Asia-Pac renewables

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... generation in Asia Pacific - or US$3.5 trillion - will flow into renewables by 2040 according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "In the long term, investing in renewables makes sense not only for investors but also for the communities in which we live ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... attempt to seek asylum at the US/Mexico border, or who attempt to cross the US/Mexican border, by getting the banks that finance Core Civic and GEO Group to stop lending money. A coalition of more than 80 US-based grassroots organisations are protesting ...

Sustainable Business Australia names John Hewson chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... served eight years as the Federal Member for Wentworth in the Federal Parliament during which time he also served as Shadow Finance Minister, Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Industry and Commerce, and then leader of the Liberal Party and Federal ...

New Forests joins World Business Council on Sustainable Development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... that coordinated approach is better." For its part, New Forests has much to share around its expertise in forestry and finance relating to forestry management, Brand said. "We're the leader in terms of forestry stocks in the California market," Brand ...