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Aware Super plugs in to renewable energy platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Energy Platform will see the fund partner to develop renewable and battery energy storage system solutions (BESS) in Australia. The allocation "complements" the fund's existing more than $2 billion investments in utility-scale wind and solar generation ...

Record climate spending for low and middle-income economies

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the Islamic Development Bank, the New Development Bank and the World Bank. Australia is a founding member of the ADB and a member of the AIIB. "It is encouraging to see the growth in MDB climate finance for ...

New NZ gov scraps 2030 emissions goal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... down from 83% in 2000), gas (19% - up from 18% in 2021) and oil (2%). However, according to data from OpenNEM South Australia averaged 90% wind and solar over the past week - meaning the state generated enough wind and solar to meet more than 90% of ...

Arup becomes approved verifier for Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... accelerate this." Arup sustainable investment advisory lead Cameron Fairlie noted that green financing is "accelerating" in Australia due to investors and developers seeking to demonstrate how their projects meet the Paris Agreement. "Being an approved ...

Student accommodation provider inks billion-dollar SLL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... level of sophistication in the sustainability approach in PBSA and alternative investments, matching best practice in Australia's core real estate sectors of commercial office, retail and industrial, which is, in fact, global best practice." Scape has ...

Bowen paints mixed outlook for energy future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Minister of Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen delivered a pessimistic outlook on containing global warming at 1.5C as Australia heads into a "long hot summer". However, Bowen maintains optimism on the state of Australia's renewable rollout amid tightening ...

Coal mine case sets climate risk precedent

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Narrabri Coal Operations (a subsidiary of Whitehaven Coal) and MACH Energy. EcoCeQ, represented by Environmental Justice Australia (EJA), argued the minister acted unlawfully when she refused to accept the climate harm caused by the two projects. According ...

Investors warned on human rights risk in Israel-Hamas conflict

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
The escalation of armed violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) raises investor concerns over business responsibility under international humanitarian law (IHL). Investors are increasingly interested in understanding their risks ...

France "Say on Climate" law scrapped

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... momentum in the Australian investment community. "There is definitely investor support for a mandatory Say on Climate in Australia. A recent joint statement from investor groups representing $150 trillion in assets under management globally called for ...

Property investor GPT joins advanced RAP cohort

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... reconciliation by reaching the Stretch phase of its Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), officially endorsed by Reconciliation Australia. The plan outlines GPT's formal commitments to reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in ...