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Low-cost, high-reliability road to renewable energy: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... emissions is hard and expensive. Net zero - where gas is a back-up for reliability and emissions are offset through carbon credits - is "an appropriate goal." The report looks at three scenarios - "keep coal", where retired coal-fired generators are ...

What's in a name: evaluating the goals behind net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... is a variety of ways that asset owners can reduce the emissions in their portfolio - including using purchased carbon credits to offset emissions they do not eliminate and divestment from companies that are either unable or unwilling to abate their carbon ...

Bank, state government become first buyers of Reef Credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... their environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies. They are modelled after carbon offset markets and carbon credits, and the scheme pays landholders for improved water quality resulting from their on-farm actions, without compromising the productivity ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... that they will pursue as a result of LRF funding: Beef and Conservation for the Future (Monto QLD) 50,000 total carbon credits (ACCUs) estimated to be generated over 10 years 1544ha of native vegetation retained and improved Recovery of water quality ...

AllianceBernstein launches Australian low-carbon equities strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... emissions 90% lower than the index and an arrangement to offset the remaining emissions through the retirement of carbon credits. The AB Managed Volatility Equities Fund was launched in Australia in April 2014 and has outperformed its benchmark by 4.1% ...

South Pole Australia launches EcoAustralia biodiversity, carbon credit product

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... Pole Australia has launched a new product combining Australian government-endorsed biodiversity and international carbon credits. EcoAustralia gives "organisations offsetting with this product the opportunity to compensate their carbon emissions and ...

New Forests to sell carbon credits via Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
New Forests' Tasmanian portfolio company Forico and CO2 Australia will sell carbon credits to the Australian government via the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). David Brand, New Forests CEO The federal government recently approved a plantation forestry ...

Ross Hill Wine Group certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... emissions that could not be eliminated were offset via globally recognised carbon abatement projects, or certified carbon credits, Pangolin Associates said. "The combination of reductions and abatement means that Ross Hill legitimately achieved net emissions ...

AXA IM to launch second impact investing fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... rainforests while building healthy lifestyles - that is, the improvement of livelihoods through the utilisation of carbon credits for rainforest protection." AXA IM believes that the decarbonisation of the global economy is underway, with the Paris Climate ...

Carbon co-benefits valued as additional $664 per tonne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... to the communities in which reduction projects are based, according to new research. Co-benefits of purchasing carbon credits include economic development opportunities, environmental conservation and improvements to community residents' lives through ...