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Shaping Australia’s energy and climate future
Decarbonising the economy and the energy transition opportunity.
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What rising interest rates mean for the commercial and residential property markets
ASX companies cooking the books on ESG-linked pay
Australian firms may lead the world on linking executive remuneration to environmental, social and governance goals, but many are including irrelevant or unclear metrics.
- Aleks Vickovich
Register
June
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
CEOs want energy crisis to accelerate transition
As AEMO was taking control of a major part of the national energy market, leaders at the ESG Summit were calling for an even faster energy transition.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- The AFR View
ESG must find its purpose in funding energy transition
By blowing up the AGL demerger, Mike Cannon-Brookes has shown that instead of divestment to avoid exposure to fossil fuels, the ESG strategy should be to invest in supporting the energy transition.
- The AFR View
ESG funds unfazed by bear market’s return
Green fund managers say their popular products will withstand the sharp slide in markets and claim demand for sustainable investing is an “unstoppable force”.
- Updated
- Aleks Vickovich, Lucy Dean and Ayesha de Kretser
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Energy crisis should spur real emissions cuts: Fortescue
Cut emissions or face the double price crunch of surging fossil fuel costs and the price of offsets, says Elizabeth Gaines.
- Simon Evans and Elouise Fowler
- Opinion
- ESG Summit
For ESG, with great power comes great responsibility
The ESG movement has entrenched itself in the global capital markets. Now the real work begins for its proponents.
- Jonathan Shapiro
BHP warns offsets may be the only option for fugitive coal emissions
BHP’s sustainability boss Fiona Wild says there is no easy way to fix the problem of ‘fugitive’ methane emissions from Australian coking coal mines.
- Peter Ker
ACCC says it’s ready to pursue greenwashers
The regulators all have greenwashing in their sights, but APRA and ASIC will wait for clearer definitions and standards before taking action.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser and James Eyers
- Opinion
- ESG Summit
More like a horror show than a transition plan
The fragility of Australia’s energy market was on dramatic show this week with regulators reversing decades of privatisation.
- Jennifer Hewett
Kean wants a ‘race to the top’ for gender equality at work
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean wants to boost the number of women in all the ranks of the state’s biggest companies.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Bankers want long-term policy to unlock transition funding
Bankers say the new government needs to act fast to secure the capital needed for Australia to shift the dial on energy transition.
- Ayesha de Kretser and James Eyers
‘Disgrace’: Tesla’s dumping from ESG benchmark highlights ratings problem
The ability of an ESG-focused benchmark to dump Tesla but hold ExxonMobil raises questions about the tools, said a global sustainable investment leader.
- Lucy Dean
On demand video: ESG summit
The Australian Financial Review ESG Summit 2022 challenges Australia’s business leaders, financiers and investors.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Now the hard work begins on ESG: KPMG
The pace of change in ESG has been remarkable in the past five years, but two KPMG experts say the grind of fulfilling big commitments is just starting.
- James Thomson
Kean to publish corporate heroes and laggards list on gender equality
The NSW treasurer says the annual gender ranking will help highlight the state’s best employers in a “race to the top”.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- ESG Summit
ESG, the acronym in search of a fashion makeover
It has become part of the corporate mainstream in the past few years. But most Australians do not really understand the term.
- Jennifer Hewett
Cost of inaction greater than cost of solving climate crisis
Climateworks Centre chief executive Anna Skarbek says net zero is the new normal and Australia will move quickly to catch up.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Call for social impact investing ‘wholesaler’ to attract capital
Leaders in the social investing scene hope the new government will release and act upon recommendations in a taskforce report ignored by Scott Morrison.
- James Eyers
The banker advising Grok Ventures on the great AGL power play
Jarden’s Catherine McCormack is slap bang in the middle of guiding Mike Cannon-Brookes’ outfit as it engages in a very public battle. Will she spill the beans?
- Jemima Whyte
Higher education to cut through endemic challenges
From crisis to reinvention, and better outcomes for the tertiary sector
May
Skills shortage threatens economic recovery, government warned
The Albanese government must prioritise attracting skilled and unskilled workers to Australia or risk acute labour shortages further curtailing the economic recovery, banking leaders say.
- James Eyers, Ronald Mizen and John Kehoe
