Browsing: <a href="/tag/environmental-management">Environmental management</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/international">International</a>

• SA shortlists four companies for 154MW of solar
  
• Coastal councils win $1.7m in climate change grants
  
• New NZ business coalition backs climate action
  
• Revoke Reef Foundation funding because of weak climate action, lawyers group says

• Frydenberg to meet Scott Pruitt and International Energy Agency's Fatih Birol
  
• Prepare for carbon price hike, Reputex warns industry
  
• Scant evidence that stewardship schemes lead to better design, cautions expert
  
• New waste plan signals kerbside collection rethink

• Bidding starts in seventh ERF auction
  
• New Zealand to release details of zero carbon bill
  
• Auditor-general to tackle high-profile environmental concerns

Ahead of the G7 leaders summit in Canada, investors with US$26 trillion in assets under management have put governments and companies on notice that they want more action on climate change.

ANZ has issued a 750-million-euro bond that will direct proceeds to projects that have environmental, social and economic benefits aligning with UN Sustainability Goals.

• Investors zero in on Wesfarmers, Chevron, Rio Tinto, BHP over carbon
  
• Australian companies and regulators back climate risk disclosure
  
• NZ urges WTO to act on fossil fuel subsidies

A major international pension fund has deemed Origin Energy uninvestable because it owns a coal-fired power plant, and the world's largest sovereign wealth fund has received official advice to reduce its oil and gas investments.

• Organic waste recyclers complain of 'combative' regulator
  
• Gold Coast takes action to prevent NSW waste flows
  
• EPA backtracks on disclosing waste data
  
• NZ Greens to take on climate portfolio

Climate change and pollution in leading economies has provided a wake-up call that financial institutions aren't paying enough attention to sustainability risks, according to Brian Cahill of ratings agency Moody's.

Institutional investors have launched a new five-year program to encourage large emitters to take stronger action on climate change.