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First Environmental Futures trade on ASX

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... will give organisations greater visibility and confidence to support ongoing investment in renewable energy and carbon abatement projects. This will ultimately help mobilise capital towards meeting longer-term emissions targets," said Daniel Sinclair ...

Groups unite against carbon offsets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... to pursue climate action, and they undermine carbon prices by providing a false sense of the existence of ultra-cheap abatement options around the world," the letter said. "They also risk disincentivising the significant investments needed to ensure ...

Unclear rules pose investment risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... proposed new guidelines forcing heavy-emitters to provide robust short and long-term data on emissions - and emissions abatement - in planning approvals. The rules will apply to all new projects, or significant modifications. The consultation period ...

Flawed carbon credits add to business risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... Chubb Review itself didn't go far enough in its findings to ensure that carbon credits do in fact represent genuine abatement, and it failed to sufficiently acknowledge the limitations in the market and concerns raised by scientists." "This research ...

Carbon trading roundup: Verra, REDD+, BetaCarbon

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... heavy industry. According to EY, Safeguard Mechanism will deliver "significant reductions" in net emissions, but direct abatement needs will rise to 43 million tonnes per year by 2035. Insurance-wrapped carbon credits brought to market An Australian ...

Forestry fund falls short of target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... A$450 million raised from institutional investors in Australia and Europe, and is targeting one million tonnes of carbon abatement over the next decade by harnessing Australia's natural capital.

Forestry fund raises $450m for natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
A global investment manager is targeting one million tonnes of carbon abatement over the next decade by harnessing Australia's natural capital. New Forests, manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, completed the first close ...

Net zero roadmap shifts public service spending to green

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... furniture to office supplies, that's a big market. The more we can encourage hard-to-abate sectors to giddyap on emissions abatement, the better." The Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSDA) noted that the strategy "sets a benchmark. ...

Carbon credit review falls short on CO2 capture and slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... additionality, conservativeness, and transparency The concept of additionality, which involves ensuring that carbon abatement activities go beyond business as usual, is under scrutiny. The review is expected to recommend more frequent assessments of ...

Act now on carbon emissions to avoid higher costs later: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... reforms to the Safeguard Mechanism will deliver "significant reductions" in net emissions, but predicts that direct abatement needs will rise to 43 million tonnes per year by 2035. EY co-leader of the Net Zero Centre and climate change and sustainability ...