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Australia climbs quickly on climate policy development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... carbon pollution by 75 percent this decade." Rayner said more work was needed to switch households from gas to electricity, scale up renewables, improve fuel efficiency standards, and ensure climate is "at the heart of our national environment law". ...

Nature-related disclosures underway

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... and opportunities," Atkin said. "The voluntary uptake of the TNFD disclosure recommendations happening at such speed and scale is a hugely significant step in the right direction in this regard. "The uptake seen so far further highlights the drive from ...

Element Zero raises US$10M for zero-carbon iron

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... producing carbon dioxide emissions. The funds will be used on research and development, engineering, and project development to scale a pilot iron plant. The fund raising was led by Playground Global, an early-stage venture capital firm with over US$1.2 ...

TCorp issues first sustainability bond of 2024

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... generation, so rewiring is something that jumps immediately to mind that could find its way into our pool as they connect large scale renewable projects to the grid," Chandler said. "It will take longer than some of our peers just because we don't take ...

VC initiative to catalyse AgTech for climate solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Drought Fund. "We have research and science around drought, but no way to translate that into commercial solutions that can scale around the world," Archibald said. "That's the vision - to leverage that $5 billion Future Drought Fund and rather than ...

A rising tide for blue bond investment: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Although the current market for blue bonds is "nascent", the potential demand for bonds whose use of proceeds fund ocean-friendly and clean water projects could grow rapidly in tandem with the increased investor and corporate focus on biodiversity ...

Investors "flying blind" to climate litigation risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Associate Professor Thom Wetzer, lead author, said. "Current climate risk assessments misrepresent the distribution and scale of climate-related financial risks." "That means investors end up investing in the wrong projects and run risks that neither ...

Carbon markets heat up

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... 12 carbon and renewable energy registries. "We believe expanding our partnership with Xpansiv will enable the market to scale more rapidly and will support our strategy to pioneer new products and services as well as invest in supporting and developing ...

ASX tapped to develop Aussie carbon exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... will initially focus on a carbon exchange for ACCUs, with the intention to follow with other certificates such as large-scale generation certificates (LGCs), the CER said. Meanwhile, the CER has selected Trovio Group to develop and deliver a unit and ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... geoeconomic confrontation, erosion of social cohesion and societal polarisation, widespread cybercrime and insecurity, and large-scale involuntary migration. The Asia-Pacific region is highlighted as key to the effective functioning of the global financial ...