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Call for education on difference between sustainable, impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... the perspective of doing no harm, it's about having an intention of investing with a specific idea in mind about generating a positive social and environmental impact." To that end, Zurich has launched the Healthcare Impact Fund, which is managed ...

Woolworths commits to ambitious GHG emissions cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... addition to the following existing initiatives: More than 120 of the group's stores and two distribution centres are generating energy from solar panels. The group's network of solar panels generated 16,466 megawatt hours in.? Replacing traditional lighting ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... into the Burdekin River, and ultimately the Great Barrier Reef. As part of these projects, GreenCollar will focus on generating an explicit price for the ecoysystem services that they produce from their activities and sell them into the market. "We want ...

MBS launches Centre for Sustainability and Business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... convening discussions across academia, business and government, Hoetker said. "As an academic institution, we are both generating and curating ideas," he said. "We are discussing what are evidence-based best practices. We want to use that to influence ...

Australian impact investing market nearly triples in past two years: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... make a profit. Barriers come into play. There are many stakeholders in a social transaction, and there are costs to generating outcomes. If you're employing people that are marginalised and it takes longer to train up, your social enterprise cafe or ...

State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... solutions that do more than just reduce carbon exposure. They also want to allocate capital to more sustainable companies generating green revenues and those actively adapting to global warming and other environmental changes." The fund will target a ...

Can proposed EU recovery plan prove a sustainable model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... employed, with meaningful work, and the way in which we get traction on any of this that green/low carbon projects are generating good employment prospects. I don't see that there is an option to do a transition that isn't just, because we see ...

Majority expect savings, super to be ethically invested: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... research, in 2017. Additionally, 87% of Australians think Australia's financial services sector has a role to play in generating positive social, environmental and economic outcomes for the country. Further, four out of five Australians think the Australian ...

Singapore-based Vena Energy issues US$325 million green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... during our roadshows across Asia and Europe, as we reaffirmed our commitment to play a leading role in developing and generating clean renewable energy to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy across the Asia-Pacific region." Vena Energy's ...

Pengana WHEB Sustainable Investing Impact Report identifies positives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... It only invests in companies that produce goods and services that address the challenges of sustainability, thereby generating a positive social or environmental impact. The fund has had one month returns of 1.32%, compared to its benchmark of the MSCI ...