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Clarity on sector pathways sparks investor confidence

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... energy; industry and waste; transport and resources. Requested by Parliament, the review will inform the Australian Government's Net Zero Plan. The government will now decide Australia's 2035 climate target. Existing technologies such as solar, wind ...

ESG moves: S&P, UBS AM, Iress, Climate Energy Finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... Corporation (QTC) as a senior associate in sustainability advisory. QTC is the central financing authority for the Queensland Government. Aggarwal now supports the Queensland Government with delivering legislated decarbonisation and sustainability pr ...

ESG ratings risk greenwash

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... clients with their evolving disclosure obligations." Calls for improved benchmarking is progressing overseas. The UK government announced in August that it will introduce a bill in 2025 to better regulate ESG rating agencies. This article has been updated ...

Help on the way for hidden supply chain slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... the banking, insurance, and investment industry in the coming months. "This is a good opportunity for business and government to work together to build leverage and really start to address these systemic risks," Forbes said. The commissioner is also ...

Canberra to expand ACCU scheme

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
The Albanese government will step up efforts to attract converts to the Australian carbon offsets market and firm up its integrity. Last year the Climate Change Authority undertook a review of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011. ...

Veteran lawyer moves jobs

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... in leading strategy, complex portfolios, and operations with tangible results. She was deputy secretary in the NSW government and spent 15 years as a planning and environmental lawyer. O'Mara is the founder of independent strategic consultancy Sustainable ...

Shareholders to pressure supermarkets over seafood sourcing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Tasmania has invested $6 million in 'oxygenator' technology for Macquarie Harbour, in partnership with the Australian Government's Fisheries Research & Development Corporation (FRDC). High barrier for shareholder resolutions While shareholder activism ...

Super on parental leave bill hits parliament

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Under the legislation, those who take paid parental leave will accumulate SG contributions on the income paid by the government from 1 July 2025, at which time the SG rate will have increased to 12%. Those SG contributions will have a nominal interest ...

KPMG prints first climate risk report

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
The major professional services business is the latest of the Big Four accounting firms to report on Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). This comes as the federal government's legislation on mandatory climate reporting is ...

Net zero dreams float on unscaled tech

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... have already peaked and fall rapidly. Over 2024-50 this investment is only 12% higher than what we will get if no new government policies are implemented - which is 2.6C by 2050. Transition investment was a record US$1.8 trillion in 2023. Halting warming ...