The Greener Way

Graz van Egmond is the CEO of the Banksia Foundation, the driving force behind the Banksia Foundation Sustainability Awards. The awards have highlighted organisations around Australia, of all sizes and industries, for their sustainability performance for more than 30 years. Graz talks about the forthcoming 2023 awards and why it's necessary to hero the organisations building a sustainable future in Austrlalia.

We’re joined by Metrics Investment Director – Sustainable Finance Alison Chan. Alison has packed a lot of career experience into a short amount of time and we’re going to talk the state of sustainable finance in Australia and why she became a "climate quitter".

Metrics Responsible Investment page: https://metrics.com.au/esg-responsible-investing/

Disclosure website: https://www.netzeroassetmanagers.org/signatories/metrics-credit-partners/

ESG Power50: https://www.fssustainability.com.au/esgpower50

We're joined by Fidelity International’s head of Sustainable Investing Australia, Daniela Jaramillo. Daniela manages the global fund manager’s stewardship activities in Australia and we discuss what investment stewardship looks like, how it impacts investment decisions and real-world outcomes.

We speak with Insight Investment’s head of responsible investment research and environmental economist David McNeil to talk about the outlook for green bonds in 2023, plus how being an environmental economist led him to his current job.

We talk with Rainmaker Information director of research Alex Dunnin about demystifying ESG, how super funds are doing in disclosing what’s in their portfolios and why disclosure and clarity around ESG matters for super fund members.

We talk with UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures' Alison Atherton and Gordon Noble on their recent research which found that there is a climate skills gap in the Australian financial industry, with demand for people with climate skills outstripping supply. Atherton and Noble explain why this could hamstring the trajectory of Australia's net zero ambitions.

We speak with Shalini Samuel, director of certification and standards learning, B Lab AANZ on why profit with purpose matters, how B Corps were countering greenwashing before it was a thing, and the future for B Corp companies.

B Corp accreditation is a global standard which identifies businesses and organisations with sustainable and ethical practices. B Corps are certified by the non-profit B Lab as meeting rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.

In this episode, we speak with Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) CEO Simon O’Connor on the big issues in sustainable investing in 2022, from greenwashing to demand for authentic sustainable investments, and how the momentum will keep going in 2023.

With more than 500 members representing US$29 trillion in assets under management, RIAA covers people and organisations engaged in responsible, ethical and impact investing across Australia and New Zealand.

We speak with Camille Soquet-Clerc, founder of Bloom Impact, an investment app offering retail investors access to climate-related impact investments.

Fintech Bloom Impact offers access to a diversified growth portfolio of assets that meet climate impact goals with a minimum investment of $500. We talk about designing to open climate impact to a broader investment audience and what inspired this digital marketing professional to found a deep green fintech product.

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Deirdre Cooper, head of sustainable equity within the multi-asset team at global fund manager Ninety One, joins us to talk about how to invest in the transition to a low-carbon economy, why biodiversity isn’t the new climate change, and how Ninety One measures impact and additionality in its activities.

Cooper co-manages Ninety One’s Global Environment Strategy, which invests in companies enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy to capture the structural growth driven by decarbonization.