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Macquarie shareholders question its climate change commitment

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
Macquarie Group shareholders are questioning if the investment giant is still committed to aligning its finances with the goal of net zero by 2050 and if so, how it plans to assess its fossil fuel financing activity for compliance. Shareholders have ...

Budget boosts fuel security, misses clean energy opportunities

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2026
... from volatile regions," Hutley said. At a critical moment in Australia's energy transition, Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) executive director of policy Frankie Muskovic said this budget presents some very mixed messages to investors. The ...

Future Group invests in energy transition with fresh mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2026
... its energy transition effort, while seeking exclusive opportunities outside the Australian market. ETIF supports climate change mitigation by investing in infrastructure businesses and assets key to the energy transition globally, providing local institutional ...

US exceptionalism may have peaked: ART

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... world economy. Our world is more ripe for disruption, whether those disruptions are caused by technology or by climate change or by geopolitics. This is a world where we're going to see more frequent and more severe disruptions," Parker said. "We ...

Mercer's Helga Birgden departs after 18 years

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals. Birgden currently serves as deputy chair of the Investor Group on Climate Change and previously chaired Mercer's FutureMakers Working Group of 30 global pension funds. "Our tiny team helped form a new ...

Geoeconomic conflicts, extreme weather threaten global stability: WEF

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
... confrontation is the "most severe risk" that will herald a new phase of volatility over the next two years, while climate change will be the biggest threat over the long term, a report from the World Economic Forum finds. Released ahead of the annual ...

Productivity Commission makes 47 recommendations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025
... achievement of state renewable energy targets. "Achieving net zero at least cost and adapting to the effects of climate change are central to our productivity challenge," Wood said.

BlackRock loses $8.9bn pension fund mandate

MATT TOLEDO  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... Norway-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, in a statement. "Large pension funds increasingly see climate change not as a moral issue but as a systemic financial threat to long-term portfolio values, and they expect their managers ...

Ontario Teachers' sells majority stake in Sydney desalination plant

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... drinking water needs. The plant substantially improves Sydney's water resilience in the face of increasing climate change-exacerbated extreme weather events, including floods, droughts, and population growth increasing demand, it said. Under previous ...

Australian businesses most worried about possible recession: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... and in Australia, concerns around technology and health have become increasingly dominant, and the prominence of climate change and environmental risk perceptions has decreased," Wainwright said. "As one of Australia's largest life insurers, the ...
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