Research & Publications
ASFI Submission: Your Future Your Super Performance Test Reforms
ASFI has provided a submission to the Australian Government’s consultation on strengthening the superannuation performance test, which considers potential reforms to the Your Future, Your Super performance test.
ASFI Submission: National Environmental Standard for Matters of National Environmental Significance
ASFI has provided a submission to the Australian Government’s consultation on the proposed National Environmental Standard for Matters of National Environmental Significance, as part of the Stage 3 Environmental Protection Reforms.
Priority Actions for Financing Adaptation & Resilience: Outcomes report from Climate Action Week Sydney 2026
This outcomes report from ASFI and IAG’s Climate Action Week 2026 ‘Advancing Priority Actions for Financing Adaptation and Resilience’ reveals current challenges and practical pathways to mobilise capital into adaptation and resilience.
Australian Taxonomy-aligned Debt Guidance: Issuing use-of-proceeds debt
This first of its kind guidance sets out how the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy can be applied to use-of-proceeds debt, with a focus on use-of-proceeds instruments including green, social and sustainability bonds and loans.
Sustainable Investment Product Labelling Policy Design - Second Consultation
ASFI’s submission to Treasury’s second consultation on Sustainable Investment Product Labelling- Policy Design expresses support for the direction of Treasury’s proposals while noting that it was important not to overstate what product labelling can achieve.
Advancing Priority Actions on Financing Adaptation and Resilience: Background Paper
Prepared for Climate Action Week Sydney 2026, this ASFI background paper explores rising physical climate risks, the growing economic costs of disasters, and the role of the financial system in supporting investment in climate adaptation and resilience in Australia. It accompanied an industry event co-hosted with IAG
Submission: Australian Government Review of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA)
ASFI’s submission to the Australian Government’s General Review of ChAFTA focuses on how trade policy settings can better support sustainable investment, emerging green industries and cross-border capital flows between Australia and China.
Submission: UK Transition Finance Council – Entity-level Transition Finance (Second Consultation)
ASFI’s submission to the UK Transition Finance Council’s second consultation on entity-level transition finance reflects a consistent ASFI position: transition finance is only credible when it is anchored in real-economy change.
Submission: Cleaner Fuels Program (Future Made in Australia)
ASFI outlines key design principles for Australia’s $1.1bn Cleaner Fuels Program, focusing on taxonomy alignment, cost-effective abatement and policy settings to unlock low-carbon liquid fuels.
Submission: Southeast Asia Free Trade Agreements Modernisation
ASFI’s submission to DFAT’s Southeast Asia FTAs modernisation review, outlining priorities to support green trade, sustainable investment and regional capital flows
ASFI Research Paper: First Nations Disclosures
This paper reviews how current corporate and sustainability reporting frameworks address First Nations issues, identifying major gaps in materiality, governance and data sovereignty. It outlines the risks these gaps create for companies and investors, and outlines a potential pathway to improve the quality and consistency of First Nations disclosures in Australia.
Australian Sustainable Finance Progress Tracker 2025
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.
Joint Submission to ACCC: Class Exemptions for Sustainability-Related Collaboration
ACSI, ASFI and RIAA have responded to the ACCC’s consideration of class exemptions to improve business productivity. We recommend the ACCC consider a sustainability-related class exemption, modelled on the UK approach, to provide clear legal certainty for low-risk cooperation that delivers environmental and productivity benefits.
ASFI Taxonomy Pilot Report: Unlocking Private Capital for the Transition
Early market insights from ASFI’s Taxonomy Implementation Program reveal strong demand to expand the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy to include climate adaptation and resilience — a low-cost, high-impact way to unlock private capital for Australia’s transition.
Submission: Taxonomy alignment key to credible Net Zero Fund design
ASFI has lodged its submission to the Department of Industry, Science and Resources on the design of the National Reconstruction Fund’s Net Zero Fund.
Submission: Implementing Australia’s Strategy for Nature 2024-30
The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) has lodged its submission to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s consultation on Implementing Australia’s Strategy for Nature 2024–2030.
How Australia’s Climate Policy Architecture is Enabling Private Capital for Net Zero
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.
Submission to Treasury: Climate-Related Transition Planning Guidance
ASFI has responded to Treasury’s Draft Transition Planning Guidance, supporting clear and internationally aligned standards to help businesses develop credible transition plans. Our submission calls for stronger principles, clarity on government direction, use of the Australian taxonomy, funding disclosure, robust First Nations engagement, and clear guardrails on carbon credits.
Submission to the UK Transition Finance Council’s consultation on entity-level Transition Finance Guidelines
ASFI’s submission highlights the importance of clear, Paris-aligned guidance for credible transition planning, recommending stronger safeguards on taxonomies and capital expenditure alignment to ensure finance supports genuine decarbonisation.
ASFI Research Report: Integrating Nature into Finance
The Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy is the first in the world to cover the mining sector, and now ASFI is once again breaking new ground, after being engaged to explore science-based methods for developing draft taxonomy nature criteria for agriculture, forestry and land management – sectors critical to biodiversity, water, pollution management and national resilience.
