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Shell shareholders worth €4tr to vote for Paris

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... record, and COP28 signaling 'the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era' we are more aware than ever that climate change will create winners and losers. We hope to create incentives for senior management to align business strategies with Net Zero ...

NSW can achieve electricity reliability without coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... momentum particularly in the last six weeks of 2023," Buckley said. "In those six weeks, momentum accelerated - the Climate Change (Net Zero Future) Act passed at the end of November with multiparty support - it wasn't just the LNP and ALP, but Greens ...

WEF to unlock US$2.8 tr clean energy investment in global majority nations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... WEF annual summit, leaders were called upon to demonstrate responsible leadership and cooperation in addressing climate change. Leaders gathered to discuss a sustainable plan to achieve a carbon-neutral and nature-positive world by 2050 while supplying ...

BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... companies with climate strategies that are consistent with 1.5°C pathways or which offer solutions to mitigate climate change. We have committed to aligning our investments in power generation with climate scenarios aiming to reduce global warming to ...

Investors "flying blind" to climate litigation risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... account when evaluating risks to their investments. Investors are focusing on physical and transition risks from climate change when investing in major energy companies - and may be overlooking the financial risk from litigation, researchers from Oxford ...

Treasury publishes climate disclosure legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Super funds with more than $5 billion in assets under management will have to report on the financial impacts of climate change from 1 July 2026, according to mandatory climate risk reporting legislation proposed by government. Treasury released the ...

Paris overshoot: are investors prepared?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Agreement threshold, experts are concerned that investors are unprepared for the escalating risks associated with climate change. Investors navigate these risks by employing models drawn from various sources, such as Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... is be left by the wayside. "Companies are having to negotiate supply chains made more complex by geopolitics and climate change and cyber threats from a growing number of malicious actors," Klint explains. Trust, cooperation and long-term strategy paramount ...

Forestry fund raises $450m for natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... sooner we act, the greater the economic benefit and the more opportunity we have to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. "We are pleased to work with an experienced global manager in the forestry sector to target the ambitious carbon sequestration ...

Top 10 most-read articles of 2023

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... November: An ANZ shareholder took the bank to court over allegations it failed to manage the material risks of climate change and biodiversity loss. #2: Government to fund sustainable finance taxonomy development April: Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced ...