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New tool sniffs out greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... 79% of Australians want their financial providers to set net zero commitments. Sheikh says the new tool will help the finance sector develop "meaningful, authentic, science-backed" net zero strategies. "It will empower investors to make informed investment ...

Podcast: How Trump will impact global clean energy and climate finance with Lachlan Carey

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Donald Trump's election victory has far-reaching implications for the clean energy sector and climate finance as a whole. Today, we jump in the time machine and take a look at the next four years under US President-elect Donald Trump, with our guest ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... government wants to make sure it can play an important role in the decades ahead," Treasurer Jim Chalmers and minister for finance Katy Gallagher said. "The Australian economy faces major structural shifts including from the global net zero transformation ...

COP29 skirts diplomatic disaster

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... new UN backed international carbon market and non-market initiatives. Also, an agreement was reached to triple climate finance by 2035 to US$300 billion a year from rich to poor countries, with an overarching goal of US$1.3 trillion a year by 2035. However ...

Experts cynical of Adani outcome under Trump

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... the Indian government. "This is a major historic event," commented Tim Buckley, founder and director of Climate Energy Finance. "The Hindenburg research accusations of two years ago labelled this 'the single biggest corporate fraud in world history'. ...

World Bank exit policy gets thumbs up from local experts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... divesting, a historic first in its 80-year history. The new policy builds on the Sustainability Policy of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) - the World Bank's lending arm. It aims to mitigate environmental and social harm when making decisions ...

Global corporate emissions fall for first time

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Carbon emissions from listed equities may have reached a turning point, according to new findings made using advanced artificial intelligence to fill disclosure gaps. Financed emissions data and climate risk analyst Emmi looked at 45,000 public companies ...

COP fails to bridge yawning funding gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience, particularly focusing on the needs of developing nations. Global climate finance reached $1.3 trillion a year in 2021/2022 compared to $653 bn in 2019/2020, according to Climate Policy Initiative. Five ...

Climate adaptation presents $100bn opp: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... at the federal and local level, particularly between super funds and policymakers to unlock new pathways for adaptation finance. To do this, regulatory barriers need to be overhauled, the speakers argued. With Australia's first National Adaptation ...

Supermarket giants lead anti-slavery efforts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... investors with AU$12 trillion in AUM, together with the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), Walk Free, and Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST). In addition to the human cost, this years' report highlighted that the biggest ...