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Climate finance gets $100bn boost: ADB

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
The regional development bank has revamped its strategy as part of its goal to be the region's climate bank. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has committed more than $100 billion in cumulative climate finance from 2019 to 2030, half of its annual ...

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 ...

Schroders quietly backpedals on carbon

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Schroders has quietly changed its exclusion policy and sustainable fund offering, all while issuing a disclaimer on ESG. The active investment manager dropped the word 'Sustainable' from its Schroder Sustainable Global Core Fund; the fund will now be ...

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

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... In local news, FS Sustainability ESG Power 50 winner Blaise Porter has now started at fin tech Iress as head of environmental and social impact. She left Sims Metal in November last year, where she held the role of group director of sustainability and ...

Natural gas buyout bulldozes investors: Analysts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Woodside disregards historic investor rejection of its climate plan; the energy giant's US$1.2bn natural gas takeover negates its US$2.35bn carbon capture buy "more than 21 times over". Woodside's US$1.2bn bid for Tellurian and its Driftwood ...

Fossil-fuel engagements require flexibility, not confrontation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... of ESG risks, integrate sustainability into strategic planning, and seize opportunities for positive social and environmental impact. It's particularly effective in asymmetrical situations where the engaging party are not the majority, and when engaging ...

Music mecca hits the right note for nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... as companies start understanding the link between carbon and nature. Asia-Pacific carbon offsets provider Tasman Environmental Markets (TEM), the leading voluntary Australian carbon credits provider, teamed up with biodiversity credit developer Wilderlands ...

Veteran lawyer moves jobs

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... 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 Solutions Advisory, and a non-executive ...

Ancient ideas fuel new strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... coordinated national and global effort to improve monitoring, evaluation, reporting and rehabilitation across a range of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) areas," Fry said. "It is our responsibility and obligation to care for Country to ensure ...

Shareholders to pressure supermarkets over seafood sourcing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... activism is "very normal" overseas, it's a different story in Australia. In 2023, the US saw 607 resolutions on environmental and social issues, with 341 going to a vote across hundreds of companies. In contrast, Australia had only six, all proposed ...