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HESTA outlines priorities to ASX 300 boards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... nature-related risks and opportunities, including how these intersect with climate change, to better understand their material impacts and dependencies." Finally, the super fund wants to see gender equality, including the 40:40:20 initiative adopted ...

QIC invests to extract critical renewable energy materials

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
QIC has made an investment via its $150 million QIC Critical Minerals and Battery Technology Fund (QCMBTF) to support Ark Mines' Sandy Mitchell Rare Earths Project. The project, located 230km northwest of Cairns, contains significant resources of ...

Climate-related transition planning consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... businesses and financial institutions for financial years commencing on or after 1 January 2025. These entities must report material information about climate-related risks and opportunities as part of their annual financial reporting. For the new consultation ...

Advancing sustainability through a circular economy

LIZ HARRISON  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
A circular economy is structured so that products are created to be reused, repaired, and recycled, reducing waste and optimising the use of resources. Its goal is to establish a closed-loop system in which materials are circulated and reused, instead ...

PC outlines key reforms to boost clean energy investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... Australia's housing. The PC suggested that a new housing resilience rating system should be complemented by supporting material so that households, builders and insurers can easily identify upgrades that would improve a property's resilience. "People's ...

IFM Investors launches modern slavery framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... head of sustainable investment Maria Nazarova-Doyle commented that modern slavery is not just a social issue - it's a material investment risk that can erode value, damage trust, and expose portfolios to mounting legal liabilities. "While institutional ...

Financial materiality of nature-related risks now clear: TNFD

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... what is surely becoming ever more plain to all: the increasing degradation and destruction of nature poses a financially material threat to businesses and financial institutions." Global Canopy executive director Niki Mardas said. "In a rapidly heating ...

Australia's sustainable finance taxonomy launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) has launched the nation's sustainable finance taxonomy and will be trialled by the likes of HESTA, Rest, Westpac and Moody's Ratings. The sustainable finance taxonomy aims to support the credible allocation ...

Mind the reporting gap: ASX companies urged to improve

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... adopt standardised social impact reporting to properly demonstrate their contributions to change. UNSW said there are material weaknesses in how corporate Australia assesses and reports on social impact, with critical areas like human rights largely ...

Greenwashing remains an enforcement priority, says ASIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
The country's financial services regulator unveils its three-pronged approach as sustainability reporting becomes a mandatory requirement for small to large Australian businesses - but it was its passing update on greenwashing as an enforcement ...