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Infrastructure to offer opportunity for decarbonisation investment: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... of which companies offer the best returns through the transition period. "Where you have clear policy direction at a government level, then separately, you have regulators implementing those policies, then investors can be relatively assured that they're ...

Opinion: The housing burden is large enough to be shared by many parties

SCOTT LANGFORD  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... This is a development where the expertise of the private sector, a profit-for-purpose community housing provider and government came together to deliver a project that is truly world class. But most importantly 11 Gibbons Street is soon to be home to ...

Companies failing harassment victims: ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
There are structural issues with the ways in which companies handle sexual harassment complaints which inherently discriminate against victims, the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) conference has heard. During a session, Julia Szlakowski ...

Carbon capture and storage questioned after Chevron result

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... by the Gorgon LNG facility, or around 4 million tonnes a year. The storage was one of the key conditions for state government approval. "The Gorgon carbon capture and storage (CCS) system is the biggest CCS system designed to capture carbon emissions ...

Activist group files climate resolution to AGL AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... while the carbon intensity of AGL's operated assets has declined by 2%. "AGL claims that it is hamstrung by the Federal Government, which is a disastrous situation for shareholders," Gocher said. "Yet three of the directors that have overseen this debacle ...

Royal Adelaide Hospital locks in $2bn social, green loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... social loan criteria," Davis noted. Celsus, the consortium that manages RAH under a 30-year PPP with the South Australia government, is owned by six investors including Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), AMP Capital, InfraRed Capital Partners, The ...

Ethical fund manager sees 50% spike in AUM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... own hands and voting with their wallets," said Australian Ethical CEO and MD John McMurdo. "Australians are sick of a government that refuses to acknowledge the very real danger we are all facing when it comes to climate change," McMurdo said. "The 'sticking ...

CEFC, CBA finance plastic recycling facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Commonwealth Bank will finance a plastics recycling facility, its first commitment under the Australian Recycling Investment Fund. The CEFC will commit up to $16.5 million in debt finance to a new polyethylene ...

IGCC names new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has hired a new chief executive officer. Rebecca Mikula-Wright joins IGCC from the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC), where she has been executive director for almost five years. Mikula-Wright ...

Investors outline roadmap for mandatory climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... for mandatory TCFD-aligned disclosure in Australia, outlining how Australia's financial regulators and the federal government can act to make climate risk disclosure clear and consistent across companies, investors, banks and insurers. The groups note ...