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Magellan names infrastructure co-leads

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
Two Magellan Financial Group portfolio managers have stepped into leadership roles ahead of investment chief Gerald Stack's departure in July. Stack is the lead portfolio manager for the firm's four infrastructure funds and the head of investments. ...

Australia can be energy transition, climate leader

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Australia should seize the next four years as an opportunity to be a leader in climate investing and the energy transition by taking advantage of the US President Donald Trump's hardline anti-ESG stance, a panel of experts say. Australia has the ...

Green technology, clean energy receive Budget boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... investment," Chalmers said. "This agenda is about recognising our future growth prospects lie at the intersection of our industrial, resources, skills and energy bases and our attractiveness as an investment destination. "So, we can grasp the jobs and ...

Disclosure of climate risks doubles in four years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... accounting estimates, and 13% when estimating the useful lives of assets. Leading the pack in Australia were energy and industrial companies, up 21% and 23% respectively. In all, 100% of utilities companies disclosed climate risks. Globally, energy companies ...

Renewable infra project contractor breaches workplace laws

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... officials refused to permit union representatives to enter the premises, arguing the CEPU wasn't entitled to represent the industrial interests of the relevant workers. "In short, the Catalpa workers were employed and performed work as linesmen in the ...

Quinbrook, CATL to build battery storage solution

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds are some of the investors. "What was different about what we wanted as a technical solution was that industrial customers needed this type of power - silica smelters, green iron plants [and so forth]. They need 24/7 power - which ...

Carbon Market Report shows positive momentum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... reformed Safeguard Mechanism is operating as intended to encourage safeguard facilities to progressively reduce their industrial emissions at source, the CER said. ACCUs and Safeguard Mechanism credit units allow companies to comply with their safeguard ...

Green moves: Re-Vi, Aware Super, Insignia Financial

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... plantations turned into biochar, a form of charcoal that is highly stable and carbon-rich, with numerous agricultural and industrial applications. Re-Vi said with its significant stability and durability, biochar locks up carbon dioxide that would have ...

Asset managers react to news 2C is 'dead'

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... changes poses a material systemic risk. A Paris-aligned transition seeks to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and hold the average temperature rise to well below 2°C. Above 1.5°C climate impacts could be irreversible; 2°C ...

Local family office backs new venture to invest in climate tech

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The family office of Daniel Besen has become an anchor investor in new venture capital firm Climate Tech Partners, investing in "innovative software and hardware companies" accelerating decarbonisation. Climate Tech Partners was founded by Patrick Sieb ...