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Study finds answer to land use battle

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Agrivoltaics are key to solving land use competition between clean energy and agriculture, but researchers warn of massive hurdles. Agrivoltaics, otherwise known as agrisolar, has benefits for horticulture and sheep grazing, including providing shelter ...

Help on the way for hidden supply chain slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... systemic risks," Forbes said. The commissioner is also developing a code of practice for the renewables sector with the Clean Energy Council, Australia's peak boy for the clean energy industry. In January, the Human Rights Law Centre said the commission ...

Green job market heats up

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... July. She'll continue to direct Alinga Energy Consulting and sits on the steering committee of the First Nations Clean Energy Network. Edwina Kwan, an international arbitration lawyer, became general counsel for the Australasian Centre for Corporate ...

Energy asset owners hungry for cover

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... manifesting across replicated parts over a very large asset. Renewables developers and influential asset owners with clean energy holdings are driving demand for insurance. To meet this appetite, specialist insurance broker BMS Australia has hired Dianne ...

Australian Ethical scores gold, others fall off charts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainable options are as alike as a layperson might assume. Top performers benefitted from tech exposure, while clean energy lagged due to poor investor sentiment. "ESG is hard to define," Aman Ramrakha, executive director of research at Rainmaker ...

Quinbrook closes clean energy capital raise at $3bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Quinbrook, the specialist global infrastructure investment manager, has closed its largest-ever capital raise at $3 billion for the Net Zero Power Fund. The strategy focuses on large-scale solar, renewable fuels, power generators, and battery storage. ...

UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... risks to the portfolio, including the US election and potential reelection of Donald Trump, a vehement opposer to clean energy. While campaigning, he has referred to renewable energy as a "scam business" and has already made promises to scrap offshore ...

First Environmental Futures trade on ASX

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... of all ACCUs currently sit in the registry accounts of safeguard or safeguard-related entities, according to the Clean Energy Regulator. Carbon credits, also known as offsets, are certificates representing quantities of abated emissions which fund renewable ...

Rest awards private equity mandate to TowerBrook Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Goals (SDGs). The fund will target opportunities in North America and Western Europe in sectors like green industry, clean energy, education, and human capital development. Rest chief investment officer Andrew Lill said that the deal aims to give the ...

"Critical decade" for energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... emphasized the role of the energy transition in reducing Indigenous disadvantage. For example, the East Kimberley Clean Energy Project, a 900-megawatt solar farm and a hydrogen facility with First Nations groups as equal stakeholders.