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RIAA creates co-CEO model to replace outgoing O'Connor

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has named two co-CEOs to replace its outgoing leader, one based in Australia and one based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Estelle Parker and Dean Hegarty will take the helm of the organisation in early ...

Greenwashing a serious threat to financial markets: ASIC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... directly undermines credible efforts to reduce emissions and address the climate crisis. "ASIC is acting, and will continue to act, to prevent investor harm from greenwashing, and to support effective climate-related governance and disclosure." Earlier ...

BlackRock's Evergreen Infrastructure fund scores US$1bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... portfolio across six US states. The transaction subject to approval, was enabled by the recently enacted US Inflation Reduction Act. In addition to energy transition and energy security, the strategy also focuses on transportation, digital infrastructure ...

Don't neglect the SDGs in sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
The government's sustainable finance strategy is an opportunity to tie action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to action on climate. UN Global Compact Network Australia chair Fiona Reynolds called the recently released strategy a "welcome ...

Corporate net zero plans at odds with anti-climate lobbying

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Despite widespread corporate commitments to net zero, a significant proportion of global companies engage in lobbying that contradicts their stated environmental goals. While almost all US companies target net zero, most are weakly aligned to their ...

La Trobe University inks sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
A major Australian university has locked in a $195 million sustainability-linked loan (SLL) with interest rate savings being reinvested into an Indigenous accommodation scholarship fund and other initiatives. La Trobe University has refinanced existing ...

New tools available to help investors meet Paris Agreement

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
A range of new tools have been released from organisations including Moody's Investors Service, ISS STOXX, Global Impact Investing Network, UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment, Bloomberg and Riskthinking.AI. Moody's releases framework ...

Investing during a disorderly transition: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Editorial note: This is the fourth in a six-part series of articles brought to you by Energetics Even if the world is able act sufficiently to contain climate change to 1.5 degrees of warming by 2050, there will still be degree of physical impact that ...

Nature-related risk a potential risk to directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... both those things and work out the implications of how you manage and disclose risks under section 180 [of the Corporations Act]." The opinion links nature-related risk disclosure to s 180 of the Corporations Act, which sets out the g that a company ...

Preparing for COP28: nature and climate integration

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
As the world gears up for COP28, practitioners are preparing for a significant shift towards the integration of nature and climate in reporting. Evan Center, an expert in environment and climate change with the United Nations Global Compact Network ...