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Deutsche Bank links 33% of long-term bonuses to non-financial targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... management, anti-money laundering and know-your-client activities. Environmental targets focus on the bank's financed emissions reduction targets for carbon-intensive sectors, in line with its net zero pathway. Seven targeted carbon-intensive sectors ...

Lombard Odier brings plastic circularity fund down under

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... will serve as responsible entity of the fund. The fund's objective is to reduce plastic waste and greenhouse gas emissions in the plastic value chain while delivering market returns, it said. It aims to do this by investing in companies offering ...

Execs sceptical of 2050 net zero goal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... oil and gas executives. It is the global scientific consensus that to mitigate the most severe climate impacts, net emissions in global human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) need to fall by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero by around 2050. ...

Big super's plan on fossil fuel return

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... to comply," Morgan said. Fully, 29 of the 30 funds identify climate change as a significant risk and/or have set an emissions reduction target through an active ownership strategy. Super fund support for climate-related shareholder proposals declined ...

More calls for adaptation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
Adaptation should be rolled out alongside emissions mitigation, says assistant minister for climate change and energy Jenny McAllister. It is estimated that climate change will cost US$1.7-3.1 trillion a year through to 2050 globally. For example, the ...

Canberra funds $111m EV transition

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... which this project does," commented ARENA CEO Darren Miller. "Europcar Mobility Group's project, while helping to reduce emissions in the fleet and rental car market, will also help to get a wider range of EVs into the second-hand market and that's a ...

Cannon-Brookes backs rural climate fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... Cannon-Brookes' $1.5 billion philanthropy Boundless Earth and charity Hand Heart Pocket. Regenerative farming for soil health and emissions reductions in Macleay NSW was awarded $14,957. $20,000 was allotted towards build energy efficiency for social ...

Climate group exodus unlikely to hinder climate action: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday voted 3-2 in favour of climate disclosure, excluding Scope 3 emissions, in an outcome labelled as "bare minimum". JP Morgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo have exited the Equator Principles ...

Carbon trading roundup: Verra, REDD+, BetaCarbon

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... decarbonisation ambition in heavy industry. According to EY, Safeguard Mechanism will deliver "significant reductions" in net emissions, but direct abatement needs will rise to 43 million tonnes per year by 2035. Insurance-wrapped carbon credits brought ...

Blue bonds: A growing resource for sustainability financing

MATT LAWTON, TONGAI KUNORUBWE  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... agricultural challenges and hindering humanitarian efforts. Further, oceans generate oxygen, absorb excess heat and carbon emissions produced by human activity, and support vital ecosystems. Yet they are under threat from climate change, pollution, overfishing ...