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Significant cuts to industrial emissions required: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... facilities. These energy savings schemes are already successful at reducing energy use and emissions in the residential and commercial sectors, Grattan Institute notes. "The bigger, long-term issue does require a substantial effort of planning," Wood ...

Uptick in web application attacks on financial institutions: Imperva

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... considerable increase in the number of serious Ransom Denial of Service (RDoS) threats, targeting thousands of large commercial organisations globally including many in financial services. RDoS campaigns are extortion-based DDoS threats motivated by ...

BlueScope sets net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
BlueScope has announced a net zero 2050 target for its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. The commitment is "highly dependent on several enablers, including the commerciality of emerging and breakthrough technologies, the availability of affordable ...

Banks' role in global decarbonisation under spotlight

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... and disclose their climate risks, commitments on how net zero targets relate to all financial activities, including commercial and retail lending, and how they are financing the transition to a net zero economy. "When we're looking at concerns more at ...

Infrastructure to offer opportunity for decarbonisation investment: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
The infrastructure sector has the opportunity to lead global industry in decarbonisation, according to ClearBridge Investments. But different sectors within infrastructure present different risk and opportunity scenarios and cannot be treated as a monolith ...

Carbon capture and storage questioned after Chevron result

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
Australia's only commercial scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has failed to meet targets to sequester carbon emissions from an LNG facility, raising questions as the role that CCS technology can play in reaching decarbonisation targets ...

Investing in health and disease prevention is the best cure

MASJA ZANDBERGEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... is, lab-grown] meat looks promising from an environmental perspective and its production costs are decreasing. Its commercial viability, however, is still unclear. Challenges remain for food giants because they still derive most of their sales from relatively ...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management augments APAC sustainability team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... based in Hong Kong and will report to Jennifer Wu, global head of sustainable investing. She will lead region-wide commercial efforts and will be responsible for working with key regional teams across the business to help advance JPMAM's efforts to promote ...

JANA hires first head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... Westpac Group, where she was executive manager for risk. She has had an established advisory career covering risk and commercial litigation, and previously worked in senior counsel and legal roles across the UK and Australia, including as regulatory ...

$515 million sustainability loan anchors seaport refinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... lending. The green loan will be used to finance the construction of two green-star rated buildings at the port - a commercial building and a warehouse building, said Port of Newcastle senior manager ESG Jackie Spiteri. "We have in place quite an ambitious ...