The Get Ethical Blog
How to make Net Zero happen in Australia!
Here are the key findings and recommendations from the Mobilisation report by Net Zero Australia, about how Australia can achieve its net zero emissions goals and transition to a sustainable future. What’s remarkable, is that we can get there by 2050 using the existing technology!
Who ya gonna call?
In a recent speech ASIC Chair Joseph Longo presented ASIC’s new corporate plan and noted that:
“Rather than attempting to be ‘everywhere’, we must prioritise the areas of greatest harm and take action to protect vulnerable people. Being a regulator is all about choices, so we must be targeted in the way we deploy resources.”
Greenwashing and Greenwishing… how do you know your investments are ethical?
What is good to know is that Australian regulators such as the ACCC, APRA and ASIC are all now increasing their scrutiny of environmental claims to clamp down on greenwashing.
Ethical Advisers Co-op 2021 Annual Report released
EAC has just released their second Annual Report, which showcases Co-op members work throughout 2021.
COP26 wrapped up... and Australia named “Colossal Fossil”!
COP26, the biggest international climate event in years, has wrapped up in overtime… and Australia did NOT come out of it well.
Checking the analysis: do ESG investments improve financial performance? Who's right?
One of the industry's fastest-growing trends is the increase in environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-themed funds. New products are launching regularly and…
"We can choose the climate future we land in" - Code Red IPCC report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AP6 reoprt (IPCC) came out this week, emphasising the fact that global warming is accelerating even faster than we first thought. The world’s leading…
Launch: Responsible Investment Report - 1 September 2021
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) presents its latest findings on the size, growth and performance of responsible, ethical and impact investments in its annual Responsible Investment Benchmark Report.
Greenwashing and your green investments
I thought you'd like to know that ASIC is now turning its attention to whether the ethical investments offered by funds are as 'green' or ESG-focused as the funds are claiming.
Ethical and Sustainable Funds Perform Better!
Ethical and sustainable funds do better. Why is this so? UBS and The Economist have just put out their survey report study of how the major players (ie. 450 global super/pension funds) are changing how they…
If you dig it up, sell it and profit from it...you are responsible for it
We wanted to take a deep dive into Ethical and Sustainable Investments, product ratings, how prevention works and how you can choose to put your funds into investments that match up with your beliefs about what’s good for you, the planet and society as well.
ESG investing basics
Anyone can be a responsible investor, whether they are individuals choosing where to put their retirement savings, a trustee of a trust or foundation, or an institutional investor…