Welcome to this month’s Sustainable Finance update. Discover our latest insights and upcoming events. AI Hackathon winners pitching at Aotearoa AI Summit We were stoked to see the AI Hackathon this year focus on solving real-world problems, from protecting water resources, fighting climate change, reducing pollution, managing land use, preserving biodiversity to improving how we …
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We now have the opportunity to take the lead in driving our country’s bid to meet our 2030 climate emissions targets under the Paris Agreement, says FinTechNZ’s Leeanna Kohn-Hardy.
20 June 2024
The economy of the European Union (EU) is worth NZD27 trillion in 2023[1], and a newly signed free-trade deal adding an extra NZD1.8 billion of exports per year by 2035[2] supports the continued growth of our economy. But there were a couple of caveats.
16 May 2024
If you’ve been making waves in fintech ESG, sustainability or impact space, email Jason with ‘Sustainable FinTech news’ in the subject line and a link to your media release or blog, and we’ll include it in our newsletter.
15 May 2024
The new financial year has started with the ‘pedal to the metal’. We talk about a few of the activities below, but by no means does it cover everything that’s happened!
24 April 2024
According to KPMG’s 2024 ESG survey, in 2020, 50% of data leaders said the volume of data is growing faster than their organisation’s ability to keep up, which is not surprising when we see 47% of global companies still using spreadsheets.
20 March 2024
Before we say haere rā good bye to 2023, we’d like to say a sincere ‘thank you’ to all the green superheroes in tech suits who have engaged with us to connect, promote and advance sustainability in finance. So, it turns out 2023 was the year climate disclosures in finance became the latest story for …
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This month, FinTechNZ’s Sustainability working group contributed to NZTech’s Climate Technology roadmap proposal to several Government agencies.
18 October 2023
National Adaptation Plan: Action 3.2: Design and develop risk and resilience and climate adaptation information portals - this will explore the development of information portals to address a need for equitable access to reliable, consistent climate risk data required for robust climate-related disclosures.
21 April 2023
