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APRA's climate-related stress tests pose as financial risk

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
A stress test conducted by APRA reveals climate-related risks can aggravate Australia's insurance protection gap for households and ultimately heighten financial risks. In the Insurance Climate Vulnerability Assessment report, APRA warns how increased ...

Green moves: Carbon Markets Institute, Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... all the amazing things going on here, and exciting to be back in a role with a huge focus on home energy efficiency and retrofit," Griffiths said. Twelve months ago, he departed Edge Impact, the sustainability consultancy where he had worked for over ...

NAB delivers over $2bn in green finance lending

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... long-term resilience." Meanwhile, NAB Green Finance for CRE has supported investments in eligible green buildings and retrofit projects, including the support of Arrow Capital Partners in the refinancing of two A-grade office towers in Sydney. Arrow ...

Community housing providers improve ESG standing

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
Community housing organisations have substantially improved their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, according to the national peak body representing providers. Australian Community Housing's ESG Reporting Standard shows that reporting ...

Macquarie AM partners to buy UK wastewater service provider

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... abstraction from local rivers and support economic and population growth in the region," Bradley added. "It will also start to retrofit the legacy sewer system to significantly reduce storm overflows caused by rain run-off from urban areas, highways ...

ESG credentials remain key for commercial property investors: Knight Frank

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... portfolio through retrofitting or refurbished assets, the study found, while 75% acquired poor ESG-performing assets to retrofit or refurbish. Further, the motivating factors for retrofitting were achieving a higher level of environmental certification ...

Built industry bodies call for green innovation policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Electrifying the built environment in Australia could unlock $49 billion in energy savings between now and 2050 while avoiding 199mt of CO2 emissions, according to a report by the Property Council of Australia and the Green Building Council of Australia. ...

Finance eyes $500b green buildings opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... 2050, Australia will need to electrify more than 500 homes a day, improve the energy efficiency of 100 more each day, and retrofit nearly 3.5% of current non-residential stock annually, a significant jump from the present rate of 1%. This presents an ...

ASX300 upping the ante on ESG reporting: Melior

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
ASX300 companies are taking action on carbon intensity and net zero targets while showing only incremental improvements on social indicators like gender diversity on boards and executive leadership teams, according to Melior Investment Management. In ...

CEFC allocates $2m to airlines emissions solution developer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has allocated $2 million to an Australian manufacturing company developing a solution to combat aviation carbon emissions. CEFC has joined venture capitalist Bill Tai and Amanda Terry of ACTAI Ventures in ...
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