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Experts cynical of Adani outcome under Trump

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... "This is a major historic event," commented Tim Buckley, founder and director of Climate Energy Finance. "The Hindenburg research accusations of two years ago labelled this 'the single biggest corporate fraud in world history'. I think that is right." ...

Why climate-linked exec pay fails

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... achieve results, a new study reveals. In the past four years, the practice rose from 10% to 54% in ASX200 companies. Research released today shows most companies don't implement the strategy correctly, leading to failure. If companies want to tie ...

Climate adaptation presents $100bn opp: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... billion in the US. It is now harder to get insurance and bank loans in vulnerable regions across the country, and new research from the IGCC and ERM Energetics unveiled at the conference found this is now flowing on to investors as well. The IPCC modelling ...

Unloved sector poised to reap rewards

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Southeast Asia. Even if fossil fuel use was ceased today, global food emissions alone could push us past 1.5°C, according to research published in Nature. "Food influences everything from health outcomes to economic stability," says Lin, but "Despite ...

Australia among the leaders in lowering carbon emissions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel, Australia has slashed its emissions year-on-year, a trend likely to continue. A research report 'The Global Carbon Budget' released this week in time for COP29 found the world has gone backwards on fossil ...

Back on the huddle, fund flows into clean energy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Physical climate risks could wipe out the lion's share of investor money into infrastructure assets by 2050, research shows, but there is a way to dodge a crisis, delegates heard. Day two of the IGCC summit kicked off with a brighter mood than the ...

Ausbil steps up slavery crackdown

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... annual world population growth of +1.0% PA for the same period. Carlsson has taken multiple international field trips to research slavery and other labour rights abuses, including to Hong Kong, China, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Thailand. "A key focus ...

Green moves at MSCI, Future Fund, Minderoo, U Ethical

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... figuring out how to do the world's first Scope 3 supply chain and financed emissions calculations, delivering groundbreaking research such as the environmental P&L concept... and [with] the team at the Principles for Responsible Investment to highlight ...

Veteran ESG lead rejoins abrdn

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... a two-year stint at Willis Towers Watson back in Sydney. At WTW, she was responsible for qualitative and quantitative research on Australian equity, global equity and long/short managers. She has also worked at Parametric Portfolio Partners as a product ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... growth has cooled in recent years, the US is adamant on containing its biggest rival. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates China's defence spending was 59% of what the US spent in 2022, being US$806 billion. Laurenceson ...