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COP28: "Weak" Global Stocktake slammed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... energy up until 2030 to be able to reach net zero emissions by 2050. A previously-included paragraph recognising the growing debt of developing countries has been deleted. The text calls for adaptation and resilience finance for developing countries ...

Australia joins COP28 gender and just transition partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... and Development Finance Institute Canada (FinDev Canada) announced the creation of GAIA, a US$1.5 billion target private debt blended finance fund focused on climate adaptation and mitigation in emerging markets. Climate Fund Managers (CFM), a Dutch-based ...

COP28: Climate finance, carbon markets take centre stage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... discussed the need for significant financial innovation to achieve more inclusive climate adaptation finance: adaptation funds, debt-donation swaps, and accelerating capital dispersion from existing innovations like Just Energy Transition Partnerships ...

Responsible investment key to wealth transfer conversation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Nearly half of the wealth transferred to children and beneficiaries is consumed almost immediately - going towards personal debt, mortgages, and luxury or self-care items to support their current lifestyles. The remaining half has the potential to be ...

Capacity Investment Scheme expansion to jolt renewable energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... approximately fourfold lift in enabled investment across Australia. Cost shortfalls of project investors' operating costs and debt repayments will be borne by the government, and a share of surplus revenue will be returned to the government. 9GW of the ...

Sustainable bonds underperform on climate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Ratings coverage with at least one outstanding self-labeled green bond, sustainability bond or SLB), issuing more sustainable-debt instruments than supranationals, sovereigns, and agencies in 2023. Many investors expect companies in sustainable-debt ...

Finance eyes $500b green buildings opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Board (ISSB). That same month Treasury proposed the implementation of mandatory climate-related disclosures. In 2022 the debt market raised more funds for climate-friendly projects than for fossil fuel companies, signalling a shift towards green debt ...

Australian Ethical backs infrastructure debt funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has allocated more than $100 million to two infrastructure debt funds that provide finance to renewable energy and social infrastructure projects. Australian Ethical has backed the Infradebt Ethical Fund and the Infradebt Energy Transition ...

Mirova targets super funds in multi-billion dollar raise

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... investment strategies, including taking majority or minority stakes, as well as providing equity financing or subordinated debt. The strategy will focus on financing established technologies, including onshore and offshore wind power, photovoltaics ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Approximately $260 billion of all outstanding Australian bank loans, or 22% of bank lending, are highly exposed to nature-related risk. Ernst & Young Australia and the Australian Conservation Foundation released a report finding that banks that are ...