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Bowen announces sectoral net zero strategy approaches

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... global climate impacts and transition to net zero, and it requires an ambitious economy-wide response," said CMI CEO John Connor. "We welcome this approach as an important step in mapping out an increasingly ambitious emissions reduction agenda, which ...

Chubb Review recommends reforms to ACCU governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... now be embedded to ensure a more transparent, robust system that can be scaled up," said Carbon Market Institute CEO John Connor. "As the panel made clear, scheme improvements will require significant resourcing in the forthcoming May budget. CMI looks ...

Carbon markets, biodiversity on tap at COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... reductions. "We need to have some substantial progress on carbon market governance," said Carbon Market Institute (CMI) CEO John Connor. "There has been some limited progresson the 6.4 rules and the parties will come back in March 2023. There's also ...

Government launches review of Safeguard Mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... the world race to net-zero emissions crucial to stem escalating climate impacts," said Carbon Market Institute CEO John Connor. CMI noted that "to date, poor ambition and policy design has seen emissions from covered metals, mining, oil and gas extraction ...

Labor victory likely to increase ACCU demand: CBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... don't want the carrot to negate the integrity that the market is known for." Elsewhere, Carbon Market Institute CEO John Connor said that the election outcome had provided a timely platform for the renovation of Australia's carbon market governance and ...

COP26 week two: impacts for Australians

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... emphatic rebuttal of the notion Glasgow will mark a departure from targets, timelines and emissions regulation," said John Connor of the Climate Market Institute. "These remain crucial, along with technology development initiatives and support. As business ...

COP26 preview: reporting, carbon markets and role of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... There are issues to negotiate that weren't settled at COP24 in 2018 in Poland, said Carbon Market Institute CEO John Connor. "Of course, we have carryover of Article 6 and other issues that haven't been finished from 2018," said John Connor. ...

IPCC report highlights need for urgent action in Australia: CMI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... criticised for being insufficient to contain climate change to less than 2°C, Carbon Markets Institute (CMI) CEO John Connor notes that the architecture is in place to switch current policy settings towards a mandatory carbon trading market. Indeed ...

Assessing impacts of nature-based solutions: CMI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... investment into developing countries, but also for positive engagement with our regional neighbours," said CMI CEO John Connor. "Climate change is a threat multiplier, but climate action and carbon markets can be a solutions multiplier." Interest in ...

FY22 budget proposes "technology not taxes" for climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... investment signals were absent from the speech. "The Budget contains some welcome pragmatic initiatives," said CMI CEO John Connor. "However, required stronger climate commitments and investment signals have been put off at least for now. "Australia ...