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UBS delays climate target to 2035

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
UBS has delayed its climate targets deadline to 2035 for its operations and flagged it is scrapping its mission to align 20% of total assets within its asset management unit to net zero. In its Sustainability Report 2024 released this week, the global ...

5000 European ESG funds investing in fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Shell and BP via ESG funds is safe, the NGOs said. "Companies that pursue fossil fuel expansion projects in the midst of a climate crisis are jeopardising our future. Their presence in ESG funds violates the very concept of sustainability," Urgewald ...

Podcast: Understanding climate reporting

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... episode of The Greener Way, host Michelle Baltazar, director of media at FS Sustainability, discusses the newly implemented climate-related financial disclosure standards in Australia with Nicholas Guest, co-lead of HLB Mann Judd's Sustainability ...

Canada pension fund hires ex-CalPERS CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... allocating lots more money to private markets investments. The China-born American was also recognised for addressing climate change challenges and opportunities, pushing for more corporate reporting on sustainability. However, in August 2020, Meng resigned ...

Green moves: RIAA, Ownership Matters, Pollination Group

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... team which specialises in energy procurement, risk management, and market advisory services, In his new role with the climate risk and energy transition experts. Martin Bates will be working with the energy markets team to helps large energy users and ...

CEFC gives $160m to sustainable real estate credit projects

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... related to operational energy efficiency and embodied carbon, as well as meeting additional requirements around physical climate risk assessments and consideration of stretch targets aligned to the International Energy Agency definition for zero-carbon-ready ...

Net zero, energy transition key election items: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... about changes, including being open and honest about the cost of the transition while reinforcing that failingm to address climate change is not an option. "The transition to net zero presents opportunities for new high-value industries that use renewable ...

ESG funds third-best performing asset class

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... International Shares Index ETF, dominated the 10 best-performing funds in terms of numbers. Munro's two products, Climate Change Leaders Fund (Managed Fund) and Climate Change Leaders Fund, an ETF and unit trust respectively, returned 20.4% p.a. ...

Woodside investors urged to sack the board over dud returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) urges investors to clean house, blaming directors for chronically weak returns and climate risk failures. The ACCR filed members' statements opposing the re-election of all directors at the upcoming annual general ...

Deputy chair appointed to ARENA board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... ARENA has consistently demonstrated how reliable renewable electricity is the cheapest option for Australia," minister for climate change and energy Chris Bowen said. At the end of 2024 the government amended ARENA's legislation to strengthen its independent ...