Environment

The power of capital to reshape our future

When you want to create change at scale, you start by shifting where the money goes. In Australia and New Zealand alone, trillions of dollars sit in superannuation funds, investment portfolios and banking systems. This capital shapes industries, influences climate action, and affects the wellbeing of communities. Redirecting even a fraction of it towards responsible, ethical and sustainable investment can create significant change. 

This is why we partner with RIAA, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia.

RIAA are leading this shift across ANZ, helping move trillions of dollars of capital towards a fairer, cleaner and more accountable economy.

RIAA represents more than 500 members who collectively manage over A$76 trillion. Their network includes super funds, KiwiSaver providers, fund managers, banks, impact investors and advisers. In short, they influence the organisations that decide how money flows through our economy. They are the ones setting standards, calling out greenwashing, and ensuring investment decisions genuinely benefit people, communities and the planet.

RIAA’s purpose aligns closely with ours, that is, unlocking the potential of the new economy to leave behind a better world, and responsible investment is a direct way to achieve that. This is why we chose to allocate our FY25 impact investment to RIAA, and why we delivered $55k dollars of additional pro bono support on top of the 45 percent Amazing-level impact discount they received. For us, this partnership is more than project work. It is a contribution to systemic change, because when the flow of money shifts, the world shifts with it.

Other clients leading in climate action

It’s also important to acknowledge our clients, who are all doing some wonderful things for the environment: 

• The Sociable Weaver building sustainable, low-carbon homes
• Farm My School and their regenerative farming in schools program
• Envirotecture designing passive and sustainable homes
• Pixii providing organic, waste-free pads and tampons
• BZE’s research and advocacy for making Australia’s big industries green
• ATEC driving clean cooking (un-fun fact: it’s a bigger issue than airline pollution)
• The Next Economy helping regional economies thrive in the new clean economy
• A.BCH driving circular fashion and launching Circular Sourcing Marketplace
• RIAA certifying climate positive products and advisers
• Interspan using post tensioning to reduce the embodied carbon footprint in construction 
• KOSI directly impacted by the rising sea levels in the Pacific, land is farmed using organic farming principles
• Clean Focus commercial cleaners implementing sustainable and safe cleaning methods
• The Yarrows designing and building healthy homes for people and planet