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BlackRock admits stakeholder pressure on ESG a risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... money out of the firm in an anti-ESG backlash. In his March 2023 letter, Fink identified climate risk and the energy transition as a risk to portfolios and made it clear that providing investors with information about investor risk is part of BlackRock's ...

BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... ESG-integrated assets totalled EUR €346 billion. In its sustainability strategy, BNP Paribas identified a "just" energy transition, healthy ecosystems, and societal equality as essential to protecting a healthy economy and safeguarding against systemic ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... rapidly evolving risk landscape." Sach also highlighted the need for acceleration in Australia's national energy transition to mitigate energy supply and reliability risk, as Australia is faced with "worsening natural peril environment". "This grid ...

COP28: Australia signs Glasgow statement to end public finance for fossil fuels

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... states in signing the Glasgow Statement - the UK-led Statement on International Public Support for the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP), at COP28 in Dubai. Notably, Japan and Korea, two of Australia's largest trading partners, did not sign ...

COP28: Climate finance, carbon markets take centre stage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Global Decarbonisation Accelerator (GDA), with leaders committing to accelerate a just, equitable and orderly energy transition. The US-China-UAE Methane and Non-CO2 Gases Summit saw over US$1.2 billion towards methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases ...

COP28: Countries tackle coal as President claims "no science" behind phase-out

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... you want to take the world back into caves." Carbon credits to phase out coal Announced on Saturday, a US-led Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) jurisdictional carbon crediting mechanism will mobilise up to US$207 billion by 2035 to phase out coal globally. ...

Podcast: Driving the just transition in APAC - Jane Ho

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Management head of stewardship, Asia Pacific, Jane Ho. Jane discusses how she implements the global aims of energy transition, environmental sustainability and equality and inclusive growth in the APAC region and why stewardship is not only a fiduciary ...

Rest invests $1b in Quinbrook green data centres

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... renewable and clean energy infrastructure manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners. The commitment will support the energy transition, providing exposure to a range of assets including solar and battery projects, sustainable digitisation and energy ...

Loss and damage funds a key consideration for COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... COP28 Presidency has called on governments and climate stakeholders to both increase the speed of the global energy transition and put people and lives at the heart of climate action. "The question of how to secure a Just Transition is expected to be ...

Capacity Investment Scheme expansion to jolt renewable energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... to consumers will be minimised. "Extending the CIS gives investors the certainty they need to accelerate our energy transition, a clear on ramp to the sunset of the RET and few flow on effects to other investors, so it won't distort the market." Investor ...