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Prepare for TNFD: FSI release guide on nature risks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... undertake nature-related company assessments and develop engagement approaches to biodiversity risks. The firm views fresh water and forests as two fundamental areas both to the global economy and the fight against climate change. This guide has been ...

Government commits public service to net zero by 2030

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... as purchasing ACCUs to abate public service carbon emissions. The Department Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water released the ACCU Review discussion paper and raised this issue in the paper. The paper recommends that responsibility for ...

Data centre operator refinances multi-billion-dollar sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... environmental and social commitments include carbon usage effectiveness (CUE), operating power usage effectiveness (PUE), operating water usage effectiveness (WUE), gender diversity and gender pay equity. CUE is a metric developed by global collaborative ...

Engaging for real-world decarbonisation: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Australia,... so don't pause investment on large scale renewables. "For us to decarbonise, we need to move to splitting the water molecule, away from splitting the methane molecule, for hydrogen," Durand said, drawing on her experience as a climate ...

ARENA backs hydrogen electrolyser startup

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... demonstration unit will be installed adjacent to the Stanwell Power Station near Rockhampton, Queensland, which has available land, water and grid connection capacity. Hysata was spun out of ARENA-funded research at the University of Wollongong to commercialise ...

Woodside sells 10% of $16.5b Scarborough LNG to Japan investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) recently approved Woodside to use under water seismic blasting in an area of endangered whale habitat at the Scarborough site with the Conservation Council of WA calling ...

Social license or social-washing - weighing the value of public statements on the Voice

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... CEO of the National Native Title Council (NNTC), Indigenous Heritage Expert for the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, a board member of the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria and a member of the Heritage Council of ...

La Trobe Uni issues $175m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... issued a $175 million green bond that will fund projects in areas including renewable energy, green building, sustainable water and waste management and other initiatives. The Melbourne-based university's inaugural green bond was issued under the ...

Climate resilience needed to dodge $442b VIC loss by 2100

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... many coastal communities and the State of Victoria itself, not to mention the potential loss of life, and damages to food, water supply and environmental assets from sea level rise and storm surge, many aspects of which are not accounted for in our calculations." ...

Renewables need to ramp up significantly: CER

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... the small-scale scheme (STC) supports the installation of small-scale renewables, such as household solar and solar hot water systems. Over the last 3-5 years the size of the average rooftop solar array has grown, Power said, as well as the amount of ...