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J.P. Morgan vows $2.5 tn for sustainable development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... development finance. Fund flows to community development programs reached over $500 million, focusing on affordable housing and SME support in underserved communities. J.P. Morgan aligned its oil and gas target with the International Energy Agency's ...

Gender-based strategy gives impact investing a boost

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
Good Return has partnered with Macquarie to call for increased gender-based impact investment to support women entrepreneurs. There is a US$360 billion annual financing gap for women-owned small businesses, according to the UN. Impact investing, which ...

Decarbonising aluminium key priority for Capral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Decarbonising aluminium's supply chain is a key business and industry aim for aluminium extruder and distributor Capral. Capral is Australia's largest aluminium extrusion business with 65,000 tonnes capacity, six manufacturing bases in Australia and ...

Treasury spruiks CEFC role in sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Treasury has proposed that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) take a key role in its recently announced sustainable finance strategy in delivering discounted financing to priority sectors as well as other aims. Earlier this month,Treasury released ...

Mike Ng named first chief sustainability officer for OCBC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... 2018. In June 2022, he transitioned into head of sustainability office, global wholesale banking. OCBC launched a structured SME Sustainable Financing Framework in 2020 to help SMEs in their net zero transition and has won several accolades for sustainable ...

Australia not ready for sustainability benchmarks, consultants warn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
Australia's sustainability agenda is not keeping up with new globally consistent sustainability reporting standards set to be released at the end of June, according to a national ESG consultant to Australian businesses. Two new voluntary sustainability ...

Cost a barrier for SME ambition on net zero: BSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... highlighted the growth in green and sustainability-linked loans for large businesses, saying that extending those products to the SME sector would also help. "Seeing the Small Business Energy Incentive, seeing a national strategy for environmental vehicles ...

Companies urged to address Scope 3 emissions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
Companies need to address their Scope 3 emissions and sustainability claims for greenwashing, ahead of new Safeguard Mechanism rules. With Safeguard Mechanism reforms set to come into effect on July 1 for the hard-to-abate sector of industrial emitters ...

FSI names new global head of responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
First Sentier Investors (FSI) has named Kate Turner its new global head of responsible investment, while bolstering its responsible investment team in several markets. Turner replaces Will Oulton, who is retiring from the business at the end of the ...

Integrating ESG central to C-Suite considerations: Mazars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... discipline that has to be held by the C-suite across all these matters." When speaking with clients, particularly those in the SME sector, Mazars focuses on continuous improvement on ESG reporting and management. "A lot of the C-suite and businesses ...
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