- du Trésor australien (Australian Treasury),
- du Trésor néozélandais (New Zealand Treasury),
- de l’Australian Office of Financial Management
- and managers of Australia’s sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt.
Specifically, this guidance aims to clarify terminology, disclosure expectations, and technical selection criteria, so that capital is directed consistently toward activities that contribute to climate change mitigation.
 Over the past 12 months, Australia has reached a significant milestone in sustainable finance. We launched a taxonomy that reflects the structure of our economy – including technical selection criteria for hard-to-decarbonize sectors like mining and agriculture – and tested its application with 11 of the country’s largest financial institutions. explains Kristy Graham, CEO of ASFI, in a press release.
 This work laid the foundations. The priority now is to ensure that the taxonomy can be used with confidence in real-world financing operations, and to build capacity across the financial system so that more capital is directed to activities sustainable. »
Sustainable debt issuance in Australia reached US$53.8 billion (US$B) in 2025, an annual increase of 11% and “sustained momentum” in this area, despite “weaker global conditions”, reports the ASFI.
Nicole Yazbek-Martin, executive director at ASFI, believes that this guidance will help ensure that these debt instruments “are aligned with credible definitions of sustainability” in the future.
They will be officially launched in Sydney at an event co-hosted by ASFI and Moody’s Ratings, which is participating in the Australian Taxonomy Implementation Pilot. Further supporting documents related to the taxonomy are expected to be released by the institute later this year.
As previously noted, Australia has “beat Canada ahead of us” on the sustainable finance taxonomy, drawing inspiration from the 2022 Taxonomy Roadmap Report, produced by Canada’s Sustainable Finance Action Council, to launch its own taxonomy in June 2025.
However, the Government of Canada has stated that it is continuing its efforts to establish a taxonomy of sustainable finance. In December, he selected the Climate Institute of Canada to lead the development of this taxonomy, which will help investors, lenders and other stakeholders identify “green” and “transitional” investments that are environmentally friendly and consistent with Canada’s goal of achieving climate change. carbon neutrality by 2050.
