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Green moves: Commonwealth Bank, Hostplus, Perpetual

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
... four years at CBA as a senior manager of climate strategy and financed emissions. Previously, he has worked as a climate tech investment analyst at Investible, an early venture capitalist, and as an analyst at economic analysis firm Houston Kemp. Before ...

Productivity Commission pushing for a circular economy

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
A recent inquiry by the Productivity Commission (PC) revealed Australia is discarding valuable materials and leaving recoverable resources untapped while generating significant amounts of waste, saying a national adoption of a circular economy is the ...

More funding needed to modernise renewable energy infrastructure

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
As institutional investors continue to back the development of new solar farms and wind turbines, a critical avenue of decarbonisation is left sorely neglected, with Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) encouraging investors to shift their focus ...

Big tech has "inconsequential" emissions planning: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
Latest research by World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has found that top technology companies including Meta, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft lack in mobilising low-carbon investments through capital expenditure and R&D, even though they have an emissions ...

Sustainable investing trends for 2026: Morningstar Sustainalytics

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
... monitored in the new year. Naming energy and water use, cybersecurity and workforce dynamics, the report identified that big tech companies may increasingly face a credibility issue as they struggle to meet their carbon reduction targets. "As data centers ...

Supercharging investment in the green transition: Australia's year in review

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
Over the past year, national energy projects have driven new investment into the Australian energy market and backed innovation in next-generation clean-technology, minister for climate change and energy Chris Bowen and the minister for the environment ...

OTPP, Fidelity pump money into AI system

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
The US$1 billion ($1.5bn) investment positions Kraken, Octopus Energy Group's artificial intelligence (AI) utilities operating system, at a value of circa US$8.65 billion ($12.7bn), it said. The funding round was led by D1 Capital Partners, alongside ...

Renewables are cheapest: CSIRO GenCost report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
The annual GenCost report by CSIRO and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has achieved draft stage for its 2025-2026 edition. The research continues to identify renewables as the cheapest energy source. The report provides capital costs for ...

Virescent Ventures backs fire prevention technology

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Dedicated climate technology investor Virescent Ventures has announced it is the Australian partner in a $50 million funding round for Melbourne-based IND Technology. Co-led by US-based energy sector specialists Angeleno Group and Energy Impact Partners ...

Super moves: Aware, VFMC, CareSuper, UniSuper, NGS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Aware Super has added former Future Fund investment chief Sue Brake (pictured) to its trustee board, effective 1 January 2026. Brake has been an independent member of the Aware Super Investment Committee since April and brings more than 30 years of ...