ASFI’s annual review of sustainable finance highlights continued progress and clear areas requiring action. The 2025 Progress Tracker shows meaningful progress on core reforms, and highlights the continuing need for financial institutions to deepen the integration of sustainability across governance, culture and performance frameworks.

Australia’s climate policy framework has evolved rapidly, and is starting to form a system that gives financial institutions the clarity and confidence to back the transition. Our latest paper, How elements of Australia’s climate architecture combine to enable private capital flows for climate mitigation, maps how the key components fit together.

Developed with Farming for Future and informed by collaborative engagement with the NCAG as part of the VNC program, this report shares final insights from the program, highlights key barriers to progress and outlines a proposed way forward to embed natural capital into mainstream financial decision-making.

Last year, ASFI released a pilot Sustainable Finance Capability Framework to help guide finance professionals and organisations to develop the skills, knowledge, and mindsets to advance sustainable finance. We’re pleased to share an updated version of the pilot Framework, incorporating valuable feedback from stakeholders across the sector.

ASFI is pleased to release a new report from Kaya Partners, Maximising Australia’s green growth: Leveraging trade and aid policy to drive Australia’s green exports agenda, setting out how Australia can work with our trade partners to jointly transition our heavy industries into a net zero world.

The past year has marked a period of significant progress for sustainable finance in Australia. Through collaborative effort and strategic action, we are beginning to see ambition translate into tangible outcomes, laying the foundation for a more sustainable, resilient and inclusive financial system. This Annual Report highlights these successes in 2024, achieved in partnership with our members and partners.

The Australian Sustainable Finance Action Plan 2025-2027 (‘Action Plan’) sharpens focus on 26 priority actions across 8 key domains for a financial system that supports a prosperous and inclusive economy, and a better future for all Australians. 

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.

ASFI's Leadership Working Group has returned for 2024, bringing finance leaders together to exchange and develop strategies for transforming financial institutions so they can effectively deliver on their sustainability commitments.

ASFI and Macdoch Foundation’s Farming for the Future have today released first insights from our ‘Valuing Natural Capital’ partnership.

The past year has seen some of the fastest momentum in the development of sustainable finance. This Annual Report highlights the focus ASFI has put into capitalising on this moment of opportunity, and the success we have achieved in working together with our members and other partners to advance our mission.

Over the past year, ASFI has continued to establish and strengthen partnerships across the financial system to drive the ambition and change needed to achieve our collective sustainability goals, and today we are delighted to share our annual strategy and business plan for 2024.

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.

On 24 October 2023, at a sold-out summit, over 350 attendees from across finance, business, government, civil society, and academia came together to unpack this year’s theme; ‘driving ambition: Australia’s time to lead’.

ASFI is delighted to launch our 2023 Australian Sustainable Finance Progress Tracker. This is our third annual report on progress towards implementing the Australian Sustainable Finance Roadmap.

Today, we are pleased to have published our 2023 Mid-Year Report, which reflects on the work and progress we have achieved over the past 6 months and provides an outlook of our priority areas for the remainder of the year.

On 23 February, ASFI with the support of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Climate-KIC, Energy Efficiency Council, Green Building Council of Australia, and Race for 2030 convened a workshop on Finance for Home Retrofits. Read our report on the workshop outcomes.

Read ASFI’s July 2021 - December 2022 Annual Report.