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COP28: Australia commits $150m to Pacific resilience

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Albanese said he supports it. The Green Climate Fund is the world's largest global climate fund set up as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement. It has now approved projects across 128 countries. Australia was previously part of the fund, but withdrew in ...

COP28: Australia signs Glasgow statement to end public finance for fossil fuels

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... to play an active role in building a net zero economy, while aligning our international investments with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Environmental groups welcomed the announcement. "Finance and investment need to shift rapidly to building new clean ...

RIAA names Responsible Investment Super Leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... that climate considerations have taken centre stage, with 42% of super funds now having portfolio targets aligned with the Paris Agreement (net zero by 2050), compared with just 34% in 2021. "It is very encouraging to see that increase," Banhalmi-Zakar ...

COP28: Climate finance, carbon markets take centre stage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Countries across Asia, Africa, and South America, and the Pacific introduced landmark investment plans to implement the Paris Agreement and new Global Biodiversity Framework, committing US$2.59 billion from public and private sources, and emphasising ...

Carbon credit review falls short on CO2 capture and slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... of development overseas - will also be included, as well as how to transition method variations from Kyoto-alignment to Paris-alignment. Modern slavery risk not included FS Sustainability understands the review will fall short of discussing modern slavery ...

Loss and damage funds a key consideration for COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... COP28. It is a process for countries and stakeholders to report on progress in five year increments towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. A technical report on the stocktake has said that the globe is not making sufficient progress to contain global ...

COP28 Unveiled: Assessing Global Climate Progress and the Road Ahead

VIRGINIE DERUE  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... first so-called global stocktake - the most comprehensive assessment of the world's collective progress towards the 2015 Paris Agreement goals. Published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 8 September, the global ...

New tools available to help investors meet Paris Agreement

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... decarbonisation actions. NZAs indicate Moody's assessment of the strength of an entity's decarbonisation profile relative to Paris alignment of net zero by 2050. "NZAs provide an independent and comparable assessment of an entity's emissions ...

NGFS introduces "too-little-too-late" climate scenario

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... negative impacts on GDP in the second half of this century. Secondly, the "Orderly" Low Demand scenario is an "ambitious" Paris-aligned scenario requiring substantial changes including strong demand reductions and other behaviour changes on top of stringent ...

ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... "This means that, despite a commitment by ANZ in that report that it is aligning its lending portfolio with the goals of the Paris Agreement, it might not have adequate structures in place to do that," Holgersson added. "I'm worried that ANZ is not ...