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Clean tech bags big bucks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... with $380,000 more on offer. SA energy storage rakes in $4.95m South Australian long duration energy storage player, 1414 Degrees, has received $750,000 in grant funding from Woodside, taking total funding from Woodside to $2.75 million. The new funding ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... emissions, but the really big part about this is the risk disclosure and where entity risks are. If temperatures rise by 1.5 degrees, 2 degrees, what does that mean? Is it a threat or an opportunity." Entities would be required to "undertake climate ...

Bowen paints mixed outlook for energy future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... it's [1.5C is] achievable or not, but it's really important to try." "There's a huge difference between 1.6 degrees of warm and 1.8 on human health environment... the number of people who will die, it's very substantial. The impact on ...

Investors in hot seat over impact of 50-degree day

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Institutional investors need to prepare for what would happen when Australia's temperature hits 50 degrees and analyse the impacts on investments and communities. The impact of a 50 degree day is the subject of a climate risk simulation exercise at ...

Report sounds alarm on data centre climate risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... data centre industry," Noble said. "The second is that a data centre is like a human body - it operates best at around 22 degrees. The data centres are often located in areas that are pretty cool, like Ireland. The challenge in an extreme weather scenario ...

Just 5% of global emissions covered by corporate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... issued a stark warning that current corporate targets disclosed will not reduce emissions enough to limit warming to 1.5 degrees. CDP's new Corporate Environmental Action tracker has found the number of 1.5°C -aligned science-based targets disclosed ...

$500bn investment needed to decarbonise NEM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Simon Corbell. "They could do that through the national energy transformation project. "If they said explicitly that 1.5 degrees is the goal and is paramount, that would send a strong signal. That would flow through to, for example, the decision making ...

Bank Australia sets interim 2030 net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... aimed at enabling companies to set greenhouse gas emissions targets to 2050 in line with containing climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius. It is seen as a rigorous voluntary framework with established targets for accomplishments in interim years between ...

Vanguard quits net zero investor initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... support the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and support investing aligned with net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner. NZAM is a partner to the UNFCCC's Race ...

Seeking action at "implementation" COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... held responsible for action - or lack thereof - on meeting the ambitious targets to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. "We always knew this was going to be much more of a bread and butter COPP in a lot of ways," said Emma Herd, a partner at ...