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How to build a climate-resilient business: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... disruption of climate change is lagging behind. But new focus from investors, companies and government on investing in building resilience means this is a rising priority as well as an economy-wide challenge. The most recent Intergenerational Report ...

GRESB leader now 100% green loan financed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... project, The Tube in Germany, is targeting the first-ever Gold demolition certification from the DGNB German Sustainable Building Council, a low impact method of demolition that has recycled approximately 70,000 tonnes of building materials on-site ...

Student accommodation provider inks billion-dollar SLL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... strategy in its financing by tying the cost of funds to achieving targets for renewable energy procurement and Green Star building performance ratings - two areas that align with its mission to provide students with quality, purpose-built and purpose-driven ...

Investing in net zero "makes business sense": Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... The second part is to what extent are we investing in economy-wide resilience, or a city-wide resilience? For example, building a sea wall to mitigate flooding is something no individual company has an incentive to do, but is there a role for government ...

Climate risk or opportunity for insurance sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian Insurance Council Roadmap to Net Zero urges insurers to implement a shadow carbon price, encourage innovative building materials for climate resilience, and capitalise on the large quantities of minerals required to capitalise on this transition. ...

ZEN Energy recruits new senior exec

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... establishing, investing, and managing infrastructure and energy-focused funds, overseeing credit exposure and market risk, and building new funds and businesses including renewable energy development platforms with a global remit, ZEN Noted. She has ...

Nature credits a potential bonanza for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... nature-based reporting into their strategies. This brings both risk and opportunity, and law firm Clayton Utz has published Building Biodiversity: Australian nature markets beyond the TNFD outlining the next steps required to harness the TNFD framework's ...

Public-private partnership to tackle VIC housing crisis

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... Flavio Macau commenting that the construction industry is currently grappling with soaring energy costs, while labour, building material and land are in short supply. RMIT economist David Hayward commented that the plan only provides for 250,000 new ...

Corporates to begin adopting final TNFD recommendations

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... Louise Davidson commented that dealing with complicated biodiversity and nature issues will require improved capacity-building, data collection and collaboration across sectors. "Nature loss needs to be arrested urgently. Ecosystems are enormously complex ...

BlackRock, SGX, and MSCI launch US$426M Singapore climate action ETF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... and implement low-carbon transition goals. The new fund will provide investors "with an innovative, unique and powerful building block to access companies in the region leading the transition," he said. SGX Group senior managing director and head of ...