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Boral to go net zero by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... commercialisation of low carbon concrete. The partnership has resulted in the establishment of the UTS Boral Centre for Sustainable Building at UTS Tech Lab. The transition of heavy mobile equipment, through electrification and/or hydrogen fuel is another ...

Asset consultants keep gates closed on greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... US Securities and Exchange Commission and Germany's BaFin over allegations that it has misled clients about its sustainable investing efforts. DWS's former global head of sustainability Desiree Fixler has alleged that misleading statements have ...

Using the SDGs to develop sustainable investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework of targets that investors can use to implement sustainable investment outcomes. There is "deep momentum" to making investments towards companies and assets that support the ...

HSBC Australia to explore mangrove bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... The two-year project builds on previous work conducted by Earth Security in collaboration with HSBC's Centre for Sustainable Finance and other global partners. This previous work identified the opportunity for municipal districts and cities to issue ...

Venture capital takes on impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... investors, Richardson said. Giant Leap focuses on seeding companies that produce goods and services in three key areas - sustainable living, including clean-tech, waste reduction, sustainable agriculture and water use, health and wellbeing, including ...

NAB launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... to organisations to set and meet ambitious sustainability improvement targets," said David Jenkins, global head of sustainable finance, National Australia Bank. "The financial incentive can be more material than it would be in the loan context by virtue ...

Advisers integrating positive impact into investment choices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... wanting to invest in renewable energy, Zbik noted. "In 2020, over half the new clients I brought on requested an ethical/sustainable overlay," he said. "That's a real breadth of clients - historically, it would have been the younger clients, but ...

PRI augments Australian team with hires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... financial journalist in New York, London and Sydney and joins us from National Australia Bank where she wrote about sustainable finance for its corporate and institutional business. Thieberger is based in Melbourne. Satoko Asai joins PRI as relationship ...

New Climate Action 100 engagement to tackle food and beverage sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... expenditures and R&D for the 1.5 degree climate target, which means investing in lower carbon products, investing in sustainable practices, changing the product mix in response to consumer demands for lower emissions products, meat alternatives, those ...

NSW Land Registry Services in $300m sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... Institutional Bank. "This was partly driven by their investors, who have an interest in seeing their assets becoming more sustainable, and pursuing an SLL was a great way for the NSW Land Registry to demonstrate what they're doing to their stakeholders ...