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IGCC priorities heard at reform roundtable

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... strongest possible 2035 emissions reduction target", legislating the national adaptation plan, maintaining and expanding the Safeguard Mechanism beyond 2030, and removing fossil fuel subsidies. "There was universal agreement that our environmental laws ...

PC outlines key reforms to boost clean energy investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... which will support new investment in renewables after 2030. The report also recommended broadening and improving the Safeguard Mechanism and introducing a technology-neutral policy to incentivise heavy vehicle operators to reduce emissions. "Enduring ...

Green moves: Carbon Market Institute, JO Hambro

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... including the legislating of net-zero commitments with bipartisan support and the establishment of a growing decarbonisation Safeguard investment signal for the industrial sector. Significant, albeit unheralded, reforms to Australia's carbon crediting ...

Net zero more important than energy costs: Economists

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... while the least favoured is nuclear generation. About 40% picked extending the existing carbon price embedded in the safeguard mechanism applied to heavy industry, while 50% opted for firm commitments to not extend the life of coal-fired plants. Twenty-two ...

Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... Standards Board," he said. In adopting ISSB standards, which are expected to take effect in 2026, Australia has the Safeguard Mechanism, which is the government's policy for reducing emissions among large industrial facilities. The government's Powering ...

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
Executive pay can frequently be a contentious issue and has attracted renewed attention, as remuneration committees have awarded inflation-busting pay package increases. These have often been justified as catch-up payments following the impact of the ...

Carbon tariffs on some imports urgently needed: Climate Energy Finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... also an opportunity for Australia to build on our domestic momentum as we price in industrial carbon emissions via the Safeguard Mechanism and decarbonise our electricity system, creating a path to an Asian CBAM. Initially in economically advanced East ...

Conservation initiatives ignore climate risks: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
New research suggests many initiatives to prevent biodiversity loss on private land are ineffective as they typically ignore climate risks. A group of researchers from The University of Queensland, University of New England, and Queensland University ...

Podcast: From coal to carbon - planting seeds of the future

THE GREENER WAY  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... Australia's carbon market and Silva's latest update on their carbon credit projects. They explore the impact of the 2022 safeguard mechanism, the company's commitment to sustainability inspired by Wood's personal promise to his daughter ...

Aware Super, HESTA join forces against Woodside

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... strategy and safety outcomes. "Woodside remains on our watchlist as we push for stronger climate action designed to safeguard long-term shareholder value," Brunton said. "We remain concerned that Woodside has no formalised net zero target, that its scope ...