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Research flags need for comprehensive ESG reporting

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Board (AASB), the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and the Financial Reporting Council. Professor Peter Carey, director of the research centre, commented that the insufficient commitment of Australia's leading publicly traded companies to robustly ...

COP28: Australia signs Glasgow statement to end public finance for fossil fuels

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... and coal. This will help take Australia's earlier pledge to triple renewable energy into reality," said Barry Traill, director of climate advocacy organisation Solutions for Climate Australia said. Michelle Higelin, executive director at ActionAid Australia ...

Super investment key to decarbonising Australia: ASFA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... plans for a national Capacity Investment Scheme. "The sustainable finance strategy really is a cornerstone," said ASFA director of economics Andrew Craston, who wrote the report. "All the elements of what needs to happen is embedded in that or attendant ...

COP28: Countries tackle coal as President claims "no science" behind phase-out

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... roadblock to progress, according to Levy. Levy spoke at COP28 Singapore pavilion with Chee Hean, and Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The MAS alongside McKinsey recently launched a working paper on accelerating ...

New code of practice guidance for voluntary carbon markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... it. We encourage all businesses to show ambition, make a claim and accelerate global net zero," Mark Kenber, executive director of VCMI said. "With COP28 beginning in a matter of hours, VCMs will once again be on the agenda, and it is important that ...

$50 million backing for Conscious Investment Management fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... US$53 billion global real estate investment manager where he previously worked for over a decade as a senior managing director and member of the firm's global management and global investment committees. John also serves as non-executive director of ...

Capacity Investment Scheme expansion to jolt renewable energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... flow on effects to other investors, so it won't distort the market." Investor Group on Climate Change's Managing Director for Policy, Erwin Jackson said the scheme "will draw investment to Australia and help put the Government on track to meeting ...

RIAA creates co-CEO model to replace outgoing O'Connor

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Prior to joining RIAA, Parker spent more than seven years at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, working as director of the Western and Southern Europe and the EU, EU Political and Strategy Brach, and also the director of the Latin America and ...

BlackRock's Evergreen Infrastructure fund scores US$1bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... dynamics, while supporting the sustainable growth of essential infrastructure." Intesa Sanpaolo's Flavio Gianetti, executive director of mergers and acquisitions and group shareholdings, commented: "We are very pleased to be part of a project that underscores ...

New tools available to help investors meet Paris Agreement

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... companies and the granularity of data required to fulfill their own EU Taxonomy reporting obligations," Till Jung, managing director, head of ISS ESG said. "Modelled data can be used to bridge both this gap and the gaps created by the staggered implementation ...