15 of Australia’s most influential organisations representing business, finance and both retail and institutional investors and shareholders have come together to support the passage of Schedule 4 of the Federal Government’s Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and Other Measures) Bill 2024 (Climate reporting Bill).

The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) welcomes further steps on sustainable finance at a Treasurer’s Investor Roundtable on the Net Zero Transformation today in Canberra.

ASFI in partnership with Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) have today released a practical guide to help demystify sustainable finance and its application for the real estate and finance sectors.

The first-of-its-kind guide aims to support greater adoption of sustainable finance mechanisms in the Australian property market - unlocking the enormous environmental and investment opportunities available.

On 2 November 2023, the Australian Treasury released its much-anticipated Sustainable Finance Strategy Consultation Paper. This follows the commitment by the Australian Treasurer in December 2022 to develop an ‘ambitious and coordinated’ sustainable finance strategy in 2023.

The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) is pleased to have commenced the development phase of the Australian sustainable finance taxonomy with the appointment of the Taxonomy Technical Expert Group (TTEG).

In December 2022, ASFI released our ‘Australian Framing Paper: Designing Australia’s sustainable finance taxonomy’ as a draft for public consultation. Today, we are proud to share the final paper providing recommendations on the design of an Australian sustainable finance taxonomy, and the roadmap and timeline for its development.

The Australian Sustainable Finance Roadmap (ASFI Roadmap) called for a sustainable finance taxonomy to urgently shift new and existing capital into activities that create and better support sustainable and equitable outcomes for Australia.

Today we’re proud to release our International framing paper: Analysis of international taxonomies and considerations for Australia.

This report, informed by engagement from our Technical Advisory Group, Government and regulators, and officials from jurisdictions across APAC, Europe and North America, highlights the purpose, principles and key objectives to inform the design of an Australian Taxonomy and identifies the need for it to be science-based and credible.