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Financial Newswire: The Market Forces report is based on the public disclosures of the superannuation funds with the group claiming that the top super funds have more than three times invested in the global list of 200 companies with the biggest fossil fuel expansion plans than the $9.7 billion they have backing clean energy companies.
Financial Newswire: According to the 2025 Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Scorecard the gender pay gap has fallen to 21.1 per cent, but only 22 per cent of CEOs are women and 39 per cent of key management personnel roles are held by women across employers who report their personnel data to the WGEA, remaining relatively unchanged from the previous year.
ESG News: Australia has raised its climate ambition, committing to cut emissions by 62–70% by 2035 compared with 2005 levels, a significant step up from its previous target of 43% by 2030.
Financial Newswire: The 2025 Australian Insurance Report found 82 per cent of insurers had reworked their asset allocation strategy as a a result of the investment risk posed by geopolitical tension, overtaking both inflation and recession concerns.
ESG News: Global investment firm KKR has announced a A$500 million (US $335 million) strategic investment in CleanPeak Energy, marking the launch of a new distributed energy platform in Australia and KKR’s first Asia-Pacific deal under its Global Climate Transition strategy.
ESG Today: Australia-based global financial services group Macquarie announced an agreement to acquire Ireland-based renewable energy asset optimization company Erova Energy, citing opportunities to scale its platform to new markets.
ESG Today: The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) announced the release of the Australian sustainable finance taxonomy, a new voluntary classification system for categorizing green and transition-focused economic activities, aimed at improving transparency and facilitating capital flows towards Australia’s climate goals.
Business Wire: KKR, a leading global investment firm, announced the signing of definitive agreements to acquire Zenith Energy (“Zenith” or the “Company”), a leading independent power producer (“IPP”), from a consortium including Pacific Equity Partners, OPSEU Pension Trust (“OPTrust”), and Foresight Group (together the “Consortium”), with Zenith’s founder and management retaining a minority stake.
ESG Today: A federal court in Australia imposed a A$10.5 million (USD$6.7 million) penalty on superannuation fund Active Super trustee LGSS, after finding that the firm had engaged in greenwashing by continuing to invest in securities in areas that it had claimed to eliminate for environmental or social reasons.
ESG Today: Australia-based financial services group Macquarie announced that it has decided to leave the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), expanding what had been a primarily North America-focused series of exits from the UN-backed coalition of banks dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities.
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