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Biodiversity risk goes to heart of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... Kuppalli said. "There's a huge need for financing of a transition away from unstainable logging of native forest towards high productivity plantation forest. "...We introduced a blended finance concept where we're essentially pooling mainstream ...

New gas projects at risk under strong climate action: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... than 90% of power by 2040. Under the accelerated pathway, there is ambitious policy, rapid scaling of electrification with high renewable energy plus storage penetration, a quicker pathway to commercialisation for CCUS enabling higher production of blue ...

ISSB launches draft sustainability disclosure standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... she said. "Our objective is to improve transparency around risks and opportunities and to get to this globally comparable, high-quality set of information. "I think the other thing that I'll be keen to communicate is that it's really important ...

Banksia Foundation National Awards highlight sustainable innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2022  |  NEWS
An organisation that uses wool waste as a sustainable packaging alternative to polystyrene plastic has taken out the Gold Banksia Award at the 33 rd annual Banksia National Sustainability Awards. Planet Protector Packaging received both the Agriculture ...

Call to catalyse Australia's green hydrogen industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... of much smaller projects, and that's a great example of where these things start." Australia has "abundant" land and high-capacity renewable energy, and the four success factors are necessary, interdependent and require collaboration in areas, Haynes ...

"Alarming" lack of capex alignment to 1.5C goals: Climate Action100+

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... companies will be a focus," she said. "Carbon Tracker did a report finding that global oil and gas companies have substantially high amounts of capex that are planned for projects that are misaligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. That's ...

The value of knowing what you own

MARY JANE MCQUILLEN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
If 2020 was a year of reaction, ushering some of the biggest changes to daily life in recent memory, 2021 brought what could be called a year of reflection and reassessment. Many questions were social: vaccines were distributed, but where would they ...

Key sustainability factors impacting business in 2022

LOUISE CAMENZULI  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
2021 was another year of great change and uncertainty as the pandemic presented further challenges to business and social continuity. This, coupled with a heightened focus on environment, social and governance (ESG) matters, meant sustainability was ...

BlueScope steels itself for climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... "Carbon offsets are that bridge at the end, and that's in our climate action report. We will look at carbon offsets that are high quality, transparent, truly additional and ideally aligned with our broader goals and where can we have co-benefits, such ...

Retail demand for thematic ESG ETFs climbs: Investment Trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
There is significant retail investor demand for specific thematic ETFs in the ESG sector, particularly renewable energy-based ETFs, according to research from Investment Trends. Investment Trends has released the 2021 Investment Trends/BetaShares ETF ...