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Social-washing hides lapse in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... investment capital is required given the sheer scale of capital required. The investor community can also offer speed, innovation, and flexibility that governments simply cannot." Investors can fund agriculture to help achieve Goal 2 (Zero Hunger), engage ...

Westpac, CEFC back climate tech fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... first fund which saw $270 million deployed to 34 investments. The venture capitalist was founded out of the CEFC's Innovation Fund in 2022, whose portfolio it manages on behalf of the CEFC. Virescent Ventures managing partner Ben Gust said Westpac and ...

Titans promise 24/7 clean energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... collective action group to bring together companies, national and local governments, and other stakeholders to drive innovation and investment in 24/7 carbon-free electricity grids, and we are hopeful that it will facilitate significant progress," Google ...

Equality backslides for first time

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... material risk and encourage more equitable and resilient societies and economies. Netto said rising inequality dampens innovation and economic dynamism, while a lack of global standardisation in the current reporting system places unnecessary burdens ...

Investors worth $42trn target state leaders at COP29

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
More than 530 investors have thrown their support behind global whole-of-government policy overhaul in an effort to reach net zero. The 2024 Global Investor Statement to Governments on the Climate Crisis letter released this week counts leading super ...

Green Moves: Aus Ethical, S&P, Zevero, Pangolin

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... international news, S&P Global Sustainable1 - the firm's sustainability intelligence offering - has a new head of methodology innovation strategy. US-based James Salo has been promoted from within, from his previous role of head of environmental research ...

Net zero dreams float on unscaled tech

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Net zero by 2050 may risk up to a third of emissions abatement on a tech unproven at scale - and if it fails, plan B is much pricier, says Bloomberg. The world would have to fall back on other, potentially more expensive solutions, if carbon capture ...

Wollemi Capital appoints former state Treasurer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Hornsby in the NSW state government for 13 years, holding several senior roles including serving as NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation from 2017 to 2019, NSW Minister for Energy and Environment from 2019 to 2023, NSW Treasurer from 2021 ...

QIC replaces real estate managing director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... evolving consumer preferences." QIC recently appointed Julian Loh as sustainability manager overseeing decarbonisation, innovation, and nature, while Timothy Grech is the new sustainability manager for resilience. Grech worked previously in KPMG's ...

QIC taps resilience skills

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... adding two new specialist roles. Julian Loh and Timothy Grech have joined QIC Infrastructure's sustainability, innovation, and resilience specialist team focusing on the forces that will bring sweeping change to the investment market. The transition ...