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Green moves: Alphinity, Australian Ethical, Climate Change Authority

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
The Climate Change Authority has welcomed Gretta Stephens as a new member, just one month after her resignation as head of climate change and sustainability at BlueScope. The independent statutory body, set up to advise Canberra, highlighted Stephens' ...

ISS ESG introduces new Sustainability Bond Rating

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025  |  NEWS
ISS ESG launched a new Sustainability Bond Rating to give investors a sustainability impact and risk assessment at the issuance level of ESG or sustainability-linked bonds. It can be applied across bonds issued by both corporate and sovereign entities ...

Australia can be energy transition, climate leader

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Australia should seize the next four years as an opportunity to be a leader in climate investing and the energy transition by taking advantage of the US President Donald Trump's hardline anti-ESG stance, a panel of experts say. Australia has the ...

US rejects SDGs, Agenda 2030

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The US has rejected the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Agenda 2030, which aim to end poverty and tackle climate change, under a new administration that is solely focused on putting America first. Minister counsellor to the United Nations ...

First Sentier terminates ESG infra fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
First Sentier Investors is winding up its Responsible Listed Infrastructure Fund. First Sentier has advised investors that the fund - both the hedged and unhedged classes - will be terminated on March 28. "Following careful consideration, First Sentier ...

New tool tackles climate risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... managers are using the tool "to help align their investment exposure to climate related risks, to their insurance exposure for SDG reporting and regulatory reporting related to climate," Sustainable Platform founder and chief executive Mark Andrich said. ...

Unloved sector poised to reap rewards

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Smart investors are buying into firms angling to solve the agri-food sector's biggest challenges, says Tai Lin, managing partner at private equity giant Proterra Asia. Amid an escalating global food crisis and the urgency of climate change, the ...

Podcast: Impact investing vs philanthropy - UN SDGs with Read Taylor Price

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... marketing through 'social-washing'. Of course, poverty is not the only critical UN Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) - there are actually 17 of them, of which many are interconnected. To discuss, Read Taylor Price is the founder of Investors ...

Social-washing hides lapse in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... role in achieving SDGs by leveraging the power of capital markets, says the nation's peak body for impact investment. The SDG framework is increasingly being used by financial professionals as a useful blueprint for investors to measure investment ...

Indices move beyond carbon tunnel vision

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... leaders in low-carbon solution providers. Robeco previously developed the Climate Traffic Light to assess Paris-alignment, the SDG framework for climate solutions, and Climate Beta to track transition risk. These metrics are integrated into the indices ...
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