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Canberra to expand ACCU scheme

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... carbon offsets market and firm up its integrity. Last year the Climate Change Authority undertook a review of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011. The review assessed additionality, permanence, and leakage, supply and demand, land ...

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 ...

First Environmental Futures trade on ASX

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Mechanism is set to put a cap on emissions commencing this financial year. This will essentially force reliance on carbon credits for unavoidable emissions. Around half of all ACCUs currently sit in the registry accounts of safeguard or safeguard-related ...

Microsoft makes largest ever offset purchase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... the tech is key to meeting its carbon reduction goal. The firm has made the largest ever direct air capture (DAC) carbon credits purchase by volume to date, buying 500,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits over six years for an undisclosed ...

Groups unite against carbon offsets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... and the NewClimate Institute. The letter responds to increasing pressure to allow countries and companies to use carbon credits most notably with the public statement of the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) board of trustees. The group says offsets ...

Climate Change Authority appoints new chair

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... leadership, the CCA established an annual review of progress to government, as well as led legislative reviews of the Carbon Credits Act and the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme. Ahead of his exit, King will deliver the CCA's advice on ...

Podcast: Timber talks - Cultivating natural capital with Sarah Clawson

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... approach to generating returns while prioritising ESG principles. We discuss sustainable landscape management, carbon credits integrity, and First Nations engagement policy and philosophy. Sarah just completed a trip to New Forest's newly opened ...

Three innovations to fix carbon market

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... the member-based group targeting best practice in carbon markets and climate policy. A recent study found some carbon credits may increase emissions, potentially costing billions for businesses that must rely on offsets to comply with the Safeguard Mechanism. ...

Flawed carbon credits add to business risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Some carbon credits may increase emissions, potentially costing billions of dollars for businesses that must rely on offsets to comply with Safeguard Mechanism. Carbon credits are widely used policy tool to offset the carbon produced by heavy emitters ...

Greenwashing remains a priority: ASIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... Simone Constant. "Building on that, we are also thinking about the different parts of it. For example, the use of carbon credits... if you have an entity that advertises itself as being net zero and very green and they get there by carbon credits, is ...