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Natural gas buyout bulldozes investors: Analysts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Woodside disregards historic investor rejection of its climate plan; the energy giant's US$1.2bn natural gas takeover negates its US$2.35bn carbon capture buy "more than 21 times over". Woodside's US$1.2bn bid for Tellurian and its Driftwood ...

Shareholders to pressure supermarkets over seafood sourcing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
A group of 130 shareholders will attempt to force the major supermarkets to change their seafood suppliers to prevent the extinction of a rare species. 130 investors are targeting Woolworths and Coles to drop industrial salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour ...

Net zero dreams float on unscaled tech

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Net zero by 2050 may risk up to a third of emissions abatement on a tech unproven at scale - and if it fails, plan B is much pricier, says Bloomberg. The world would have to fall back on other, potentially more expensive solutions, if carbon capture ...

BHP, Rio Tinto, Qantas back carbon credits fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
The ASX-listed companies have poured $80 million into a new Australian carbon credits fund from Silva Capital. The Silva Carbon Origination Fund is one of the first funds in Australia to invest in large-scale, high-integrity Australian Carbon Credit ...

S&P Global gains top sustainability expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
The high-profile Désirée Lucchese has quit MLC Life Insurance after just four months to join S&P Global as a sustainability solutions specialist. Lucchese said she is keen to return to the "complex, nuanced and ever-evolving space of investment data ...

Energy asset owners hungry for cover

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Energy assets present a number of particular insurance risks - from natural catastrophe exposures, to technology risks, to serial defects manifesting across replicated parts over a very large asset. Renewables developers and influential asset owners ...

Disorderly transition may spark financial meltdown

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Australian investors may face a global financial disaster as early as next year, risk researchers warn. Bert Kramer is head of climate research and ESG solutions at risk management firm Ortec Finance. He cautions that the upcoming revision of nationally ...

Woodside's US$2.35bn gamble raises doubts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... light of its recent US$900 million bid for LNG producer Tellurian - and the permanence of the carbon capture and storage tech the ammonia project will employ. The ammonia deal will not reverse Woodside's emissions growth "even in the unlikely event ...

Australian Ethical scores gold, others fall off charts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... data highlights that not all sustainable options are as alike as a layperson might assume. Top performers benefitted from tech exposure, while clean energy lagged due to poor investor sentiment. "ESG is hard to define," Aman Ramrakha, executive director ...

Systems thinking to drive alpha, tackle systemic threats

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... the main drivers of investment 'alpha' in this portion of the twenty first century," Urwin said. Investors are turning to tech to tackle this problem, but worry it is not yet mature enough. 38% of investors see AI and machine learning as potentially ...