This year-in-review reflects the twelve key system signals observed through ASFI’s engagement, analysis and collaborative work across 2025, highlighting where momentum is building, where challenges remain, and what these signals mean for 2026.

Australia and New Zealand have signalled a renewed commitment to regional cooperation on sustainable finance, following a joint statement from Ministers Chris Bowen and Simon Watts.

Transition finance dominated COP30, and ASFI returns with new insights to strengthen credible, science-based pathways for Australia’s transition.

ASFI, UK Finance and UKSIF convened members from both countries for a roundtable on credible transition finance. The conversation highlighted how Australia and the UK are taking different paths toward the same goal; aligning finance with science-based transition strategies that can deliver real-world impact.

Last week we had the privilege of bringing together hundreds of passionate finance, policy and sustainability leaders for the Australian Sustainable Finance Summit. Not to rehash the challenges we face, but to focus on the actions that come next. 

Today, the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) is setting a new course for Australia’s trade – one that pivots national exports towards green commodities, while deepening Australia’s economic and strategic relationships with partners across the Indo-Pacific.

Today, business and finance groups have come together to endorse Australia’s continued bipartisan commitment to the Paris Agreement goals and call for all levels of government to continue to support Australia’s transition to a clean, competitive, resilient and prosperous net zero economy.

Catch up on ASFI’s latest work and progress.

Catch up on ASFI’s latest work and progress.

Catch up on ASFI’s latest work and progress.

In 2024, the ASFI Leadership Working Group convened leaders from across the financial sector to address a vital question: how can we embed and mainstream sustainability within financial institutions? Over four in-person workshops, the group shared insights on barriers to advancing sustainability objectives, discussed key stakeholders and how to work with them, and identified actionable solutions to accelerate change.

Catch up on ASFI’s latest work and progress.

Read ASFI’s reflections from this year’s UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (“COP29”), which wrapped up last week in Baku.

Catch up on ASFI’s latest work and progress.

Last week, we gathered on Gadigal Country to host the Australian Sustainable Finance Summit, bringing together experts, leaders, and changemakers committed to shaping a sustainable financial future.

In the sidelines of the first Global Nature Positive Summit, ASFI jointly hosted together with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and Westpac a roundtable discussion that focused on ways to shift private capital towards nature positive outcomes.

The Global Nature Positive Summit, held in Sydney from 8-10 October, marked a pivotal moment in the intersection of nature conservation and business and finance interests. Read ASFI’s key takeaways from the Summit.

Catch up on ASFI’s latest work and progress.