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Assessing companies ability to make the low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Investors need to be able to assess companies and countries on their ability to manage the transition to a lower-carbon economy using a range of backward and forward-looking metrics. There is a lack of global standards and definitions around climate ...

PRI, CFA Institute and GSIA agree to common RI definitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... UK through to Australia and New Zealand." GSIA worked with the CFA Institute when the CFA Institute issued their ESG disclosure guidance in 2020 and the two bodies plus the PRI came together when the International Organization of Securities Commissions ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... moratorium on private litigation related to Scope 3 reporting as part of its proposed mandatory climate-related financial disclosure package has raised fears that it would give companies the green light to greenwash. Under the federal government's ...

Treasury launches sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... is expected that Treasury will consult on exposure draft legislation to give effect to the climate-related financial disclosure regime later this year, with legislation introduced in early 2024. One of the key questions from the finance industry is the ...

Morgan Stanley makes second climate private equity deal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... financial year and has sold 300 million meals since it was founded. 1GT is an Article 9 fund under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, which integrates sustainability into the investment process in a binding manner. The fund is focused on ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Approximately $260 billion of all outstanding Australian bank loans, or 22% of bank lending, are highly exposed to nature-related risk. Ernst & Young Australia and the Australian Conservation Foundation released a report finding that banks that are ...

PRI to shake up reporting framework for signatories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... frameworks, any reporting and assessment we do to pathways that are more relevant to them." PRI introduced a mandatory disclosure regime for signatories in 2013 and since 2014, signatories have been required to report annually on their implementation ...

Investors prepare for urgent action on nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Growing awareness in finance regarding nature conservation and the opportunities related to natural capital is increasingly top of mind for investors. FS Sustainability recently hosted its inaugural event in Sydney supported by ISS ESG, where experts ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). AASB has opened up a 120-day comment period on ASRS 1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Climate-related Financial Information and ASRS 2 Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, ending on 1 March 2024. ...

Connecting capital to nature the next challenge: ASFI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australasia to help scale up understanding and utilisation of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) disclosure framework, Yazbek-Martin said. A lot of the initial work around natural capital will be to define the indicators that ...