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Investors call for multilateral financial architecture overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... institutional investors with US$9.6 trillion in assets under management reported a fall in total absolute financed greenhouse gas emissions. In its third annual progress report, the UN-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) detailed progress ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS) will first focus on climate-related financial reporting, under an exposure draft released by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). AASB has opened up a 120-day comment period on ASRS 1 ...

Connecting capital to nature the next challenge: ASFI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Connecting how the finance sector can connect with innovations in biodiversity, natural capital and work being done on the ground in sectors like the agricultural industry is the next stage in driving real world impacts in protecting the natural world. ...

NSW Anti-slavery commissioner raises alarm on ASX risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... markets such as Korea, China and India," Cockayne said. FLORET estimates that sectors with higher risk include mining, oil and gas extraction, manufacturing and construction. "In some ways this is not surprising," Cockayne said. "Modern slavery risks ...

Reducing risk and navigating a just transition

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... on the ground makes sense... communities can engage and negotiate what they want." Cahill cites the rapid expansion of the gas industry in the 2010's as an example of where better planning and coordination would have helped the community deal with the ...

Record climate spending for low and middle-income economies

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... to mobilise significant amounts of private sector finance to move from the billions to trillions required to cut greenhouse gas emissions and urgently scale up climate resilience both now and into the future."

New NZ gov scraps 2030 emissions goal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... predominantly of fossil fuels at 68% of total electricity generation in 2022, including coal (47% - down from 83% in 2000), gas (19% - up from 18% in 2021) and oil (2%). However, according to data from OpenNEM South Australia averaged 90% wind and solar ...

Bowen paints mixed outlook for energy future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... rewards outweigh the costs. Despite high upfront costs, solar and wind energy are the "cheapest" forms of energy, he said, while gas and coal were more expensive. Storage and transmission expenses, while higher, remain more economical than fossil fuels. ...

Coal mine case sets climate risk precedent

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... the court case, the minister "did not dispute" the "very detailed" supporting evidence detailing the impact of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the extraction and burning of coal on anthropogenic climate change, nor the effect of climate change ...

ACCC approves Origin Energy bid on renewable grounds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... acquisition, Brookfield would acquire Origin's Energy Markets business while MidOcean would acquire Origin's Integrated Gas business including a 27.5% interest in Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG). MidOcean will then on-sell a 2.49% interest in APLNG ...