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China relaunches offsets market, releases biodiversity framework

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
China's Certified Emission Reductions (CCER) scheme has restarted after a six-year pause, as the country releases its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. Suspended in 2017 due to low trading volume and lack of standardisation in carbon audits ...

NSW can achieve electricity reliability without coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... in 2023, has put NSW in line per Climate Energy Finance's modelling. "There's really good momentum particularly in the last six weeks of 2023," Buckley said. "In those six weeks, momentum accelerated - the Climate Change (Net Zero Future) Act passed ...

$200m social housing catalyst for clean energy sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Overall, 2023 saw record growth for rooftop solar in Australia with a 21% increase in rooftop solar PV capacity in the first six months compared to the previous year, according to the Clean Energy Regulator. Climate Council head of advocacy Jennifer ...

Paris overshoot: are investors prepared?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... 2.5°C-2.9°C of warming above pre-industrial levels this century, necessitating a steep 42% reduction in emissions in the next six years to curb the rise to the agreed 1.5°C threshold. "Present trends are racing our planet down a dead-end 3C temperature ...

Preparing for mandatory climate reporting: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
Editorial note: This is the sixth in a six-part series of articles brought to you by Energetics In 2024, Australian business will need to focus on the strength of their response to climate change, with government aiming to legislate mandatory climate ...

Agriculture funding takes the stage at COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... action, and fostering hope towards a more sustainable, resilient, and prosperous world for all." Agriculture and land is one of six economic sectors that the Australian government has selected for sector-specific decarbonization plans, along with plans ...

Progress on Australia's sustainable finance taxonomy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... science-based technical screening criteria. Public consultation on draft criteria will commence in late March 2024 and run for six months. "Green" and "transition" The first paper clarifies definitions of "green" and "transition", and how sectors and ...

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

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
Australia has joined 40 other countries to end international public investment in fossil fuels, as the first week of COP28 saw new agreements regarding financing net zero as well as a focus on the role of Indigenous Peoples in climate stewardship. The ...

Super investment key to decarbonising Australia: ASFA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... is embedded in that or attendant to that. There is also government policy through the proposed transition pathways for the six key sectors. That's absolutely essential and tangential to the financial strategy as much as it's more a macroeconomic exercise." ...

How to spot a credible transition plan: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
Editorial note: This is the fifth in a six-part series of articles brought to you by Energetics Moving past ambitious net zero targets, investors are now focusing on how companies will get from here to 2050 and how robust their transition plans are. ...