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Australian Ethical grants $500k to climate solutions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... funds under management across superannuation and managed funds. The ten not-for-profit enterprises specialise in clean energy solutions, biodiversity, and female-led enterprise. This comes as Australian Ethical is transitioning its administration to ...

Shell shareholders worth €4tr to vote for Paris

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... medium-term emissions reduction targets with the Paris Agreement. Shareholders will take an advisory vote to update the company's energy transition strategy before the annual general meeting in May. In 2023, 20% of Shell shareholders voted to support ...

NSW can achieve electricity reliability without coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... power plant open beyond its planned closure date in 2025 as the state of NSW has made "massive progress" on new renewable energy and battery capacity, according to think tank Climate Energy Finance. The state of NSW is considering whether to pay to extend ...

WEF to unlock US$2.8 tr clean energy investment in global majority nations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced a new initiative to assist global majority nations accelerate clean energy investment solutions. The Network to Mobilize Clean Energy Investment for the Global South was founded in Davos this week to help ...

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

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
A Perth mineral technology company has raised US$10 million in seed funding to harness clean energy to process iron ore reportedly without producing carbon dioxide emissions. The funds will be used on research and development, engineering, and project ...

BlackRock admits stakeholder pressure on ESG a risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... pulled state money out of the firm in an anti-ESG backlash. In his March 2023 letter, Fink identified climate risk and the energy transition as a risk to portfolios and made it clear that providing investors with information about investor risk is part ...

$200m social housing catalyst for clean energy sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
The Australian federal and NSW state government have announced a partnership of $200 million in funding for clean energy upgrades on social housing and low-income rentals. The funding will go towards upgrading housing stock in the parts of New South ...

BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... its ESG-integrated assets totalled EUR €346 billion. In its sustainability strategy, BNP Paribas identified a "just" energy transition, healthy ecosystems, and societal equality as essential to protecting a healthy economy and safeguarding against ...

Podcast: Banking on the future with Australia's green bank

THE GREENER WAY  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is Australia's green bank. Over the last 10 years, the CEFC has deployed more than ten billion dollars to invest in decarbonising Australia with an annualised cumulative return of 4.24%. But almost more importantly ...

Investors "flying blind" to climate litigation risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... their investments. Investors are focusing on physical and transition risks from climate change when investing in major energy companies - and may be overlooking the financial risk from litigation, researchers from Oxford University and the University ...