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Climate change a risk to financial stability: RBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... identified three "outside" risks - geopolitics, operational risk such as AI, cyber-risk and the use of cloud based technology and other services that banks and financial institutions and raise concerns about governance, risk management, platform concentration ...

Role for finance after No vote

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... benefit natural capital, said Joshua Gilbert, Worimi man and policy officer of Indigenous policy at the University of Technology Sydney Jumbunna Institute. Cultural ownership over the land necessitates investment decisions being "defined by the community," ...

Investment in climate tech plummets 40%: PwC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... will only grow stronger." PwC UK global climate leader Emma Cox commented: "The development and scale-up of climate technology is an essential part of meeting the climate challenge. So, while it is not surprising that absolute levels of investment in ...

Aware Super plugs in to renewable energy platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... with a strong pipeline of small scale, fast deployment renewable energy and storage assets, with BESS being a critical technology in supporting our nation's sustainable transition to a clean energy future." The Birdwood distributed energy platform has ...

New NZ gov scraps 2030 emissions goal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... investment in New Zealand's renewable sector since it last year acquired New Zealand-based rooftop solar and battery technology provider SolarZero. The renewables share of electricity generation in the country is now at its highest level on record ...

Solving carbon credit concerns with blockchain

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Limited, ReGen III and REDD+, in addition to institutional buyers. The system utilises private ledger digital blockchain technology to connect institutional buyers with carbon credit suppliers, allowing purchasers to transact tokenised carbon credits ...

Does sustainable investing underperform?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... exposure. Periods of outperformance, such as in 2020, can be explained by industry effects including a tilt towards technology stocks. The study from Scientific Beta, Sustainability Alpha in the Real World: Evidence from Exchange-Traded Funds, assesses ...

UniSuper, pension funds buy forestry fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... also owns key infrastructure along the supply chain consisting of two wood processing mills, a seedling nursery, fibre technology laboratory, and port access via a freehold facility at Long Reach, Tasmania. "This adds further momentum to our growing ...

Uni partnership to turbocharge innovation in CO2 product manufacturing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... high-value products, utilising electrochemical, thermochemical and biological technologies, including direct air capture technology. Director Paul Webley said research hubs were a vital platform for industry collaboration with academia. "We need to change ...

Grim stats for company, investor net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... ASX300 has about a 20% probability of achieving net zero by 2050, based on their AI and large language model (LLM) technology which analyses volumes of company data at speed. Their models end up with a score that assesses how likely a company is to meet ...