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Investing during a disorderly transition: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... scenarios. The starting point in Australia was the electricity markets, where we could see how the transition to clean energy has been happening in a very messy way. There has been misalignment among policy, regulatory, investment and consumer signals ...

Treasury spruiks CEFC role in sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Treasury has proposed that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) take a key role in its recently announced sustainable finance strategy in delivering discounted financing to priority sectors as well as other aims. Earlier this month,Treasury released ...

ASIC considering wider lens for greenwashing focus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... fewer than 30 views, as well as infringements notices in response to concerns about alleged greenwashing, including Tlou Energy Limited, Vanguard Investments Australia, Diversa Trustees Limited and Black Mountain Energy

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... accountability, stakeholder engagement, lobbying and advocacy, circular and nature-positive transition, a right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, Indigenous Peoples rights, land rights, and water and sanitation. Additional core social ...

UniSuper, pension funds buy forestry fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... another rotation. In 2017, Forico became the first producer to register a plantation forestry method with the Clean Energy Regulator, which allowed for the recognition of carbon sequestration in new and longer-rotation plantation forests as well as the ...

Record number of soil ACCUs issued for Queensland graziers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... farmers have been awarded a record amount of 94,666 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) by the national Clean Energy Regulator - the largest allocation for an individual soil carbon farming project in Australia to date. Regenerative graziers Carly ...

Impact investment unlocks land finance for Traditional Owners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... until the late 1960s. Working with long-time partner Climate Friendly, KBRAC have secured approval from the Clean Energy Regulator for the Thargomindah Station Regeneration Project, a carbon farming project. This project was central to the financing ...

Business climate action "irreversible": Combet

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... created Jobs and Skills Australia and it is looking at the skill requirement we need to make the transition and move towards a clean economy," Combet said in response to a question. "What you're pointing to is the scale of the challenge on so many ...

New net zero standard for miners

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
While mining companies are essential providers of the materials needed for clean energy technologies, they also face significant transition risks. A new pilot benchmark will provide investors with the necessary metrics to help assess diversified mining ...

Government commits public service to net zero by 2030

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... recommends that responsibility for Australian government purchasing of ACCUs should be moved out of the Clean Energy Regulator, which oversees the issuance of ACCUs and into another government body to avoid actual or perceived conflicts of interest. ...