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Australia's chance to step up

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... driving clean energy investment and manufacturing, will be dismantled under a second Trump administration, boosting global emissions by four billion tons to 2030, according to MIT analysis. Trump represents "a real anti-ESG movement which was already ...

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

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... investing. "The early days at Trucost saw us 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 ...

81 major investors lock in climate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... that have set targets. The industry-led asset owner alliance said members have reduced absolute financed greenhouse gas emissions by an average of at least 6% annually, putting them on track to meet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's ...

Australia leads in greenwashing lawsuits

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... over greenwashing allegations in the first court case in the world to challenge the legitimacy of a company's net zero emissions plan. This comes as the nonprofit Climate Integrity has made a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...

Funds SA and Apostle jump on activist group rebound

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... 'real-world' decarbonisation we need to see, particularly given how fundamentally interlinked the bulk of global emissions are across industries." She said collaborative efforts like CA100+ are a "critical tool" to support companies in reducing ...

New alliance brings green data to financial markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
Financed emissions and climate risk analyst Emmi has teamed up with global data provider FactSet to boost the finance sector's access to data. Following the ethos 'what gets measured, gets managed', Emmi has spent four years developing this ...

ASIC clarifies licensing rules for carbon market

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... corporate regulator, other market players may need a license. From this financial year, the Safeguard Mechanism caps emissions for heavy industry in order to meet Australia's 2030 nationally determined contribution (NDC), thereby increasing reliance ...

From Canva to carbon accounting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... told an accounting publication that several years ago, she was seeing more clients enquire about sustainability and emissions output. That's when she identified the need for carbon accounting software and quit her day job. The decision paid off. ...

Carbon price could stall $600bn super loss

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... transition to a low carbon future will cause immediate financial losses due to stranded assets, according to Emmi, a financed emissions data and climate risk analyst. This is because the true current carbon exposure of the ASX300, including Scope 3 emissions ...

UniSuper defends APA stake amid member backlash

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... the plans. The letter accuses the fund of greenwashing, pointing out that UniSuper has committed to net zero portfolio emissions by 2050. UniSuper has policies to work "with companies to reduce real-world emissions and accelerate the transition," to ...