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UniSuper caps future investment in fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... defined benefit, is below the reference benchmarks of the ASX300 and MSCI world. The fund has developed a shadow carbon price for the top 50 companies or unlisted assets where the fund feels carbon pricing could be a significant risk. "Our expectations ...

Government launches review of Safeguard Mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Responsibility (ACCR) climate lead (Australia) Harriet Kater. "Ever since the repeal of the Gillard government's carbon price, heavy carbon emitters in Australia have essentially been unregulated," Kater said. ""There has been no consequence for them ...

Fixing Australia's complicated carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... offsets." The CCA says government should publish a National Carbon Market Strategy that would make Australia's carbon price more "visible, understandable, and certain," would uphold the integrity of offsets in both generation and utilisation, and ...

Significant cuts to industrial emissions required: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... recommend things that could be done without significant political obstacles such as created by the debate around the carbon price, and thirdly, things that would give at least initially organisations the incentives to move and move reasonably quickly ...

Calculating the value of green transitions: UBS AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... investment cycles, so they need to invest for the future," Gustafsson said. "Companies are not investing based on today's carbon price, it's more about long term expectation." The framework is to be used as the basis for engagement with companies, Gustafsson ...

Economist urges drastic action on climate change policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... and stronger policy in this space." Wood said the "lowest cost way" to hit a 2050 net zero carbon target would be a carbon price, but noted that neither the Coalition nor Labor had policies or appetite to introduce a new carbon pricing regime. "That ...

Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... as part of the carbon toolbox." By proposing a GHG emissions levy, the European Union is de facto setting a global carbon price. "Institutions like the EU are saying one way or another, we will get a carbon emissions price built into your product," said ...

Assessing the costs, opportunities to green hydrogen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... commercial feedstock by 2030. "It's a question of how low does the green hydrogen production cost need to be before the carbon price can put it within firing range of grey hydrogen," Lewis explained. "The carbon price, once production cost is within ...

ESG scores linked to higher stock valuation: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... introduced, Asia-Pacific-based companies face outsized risk because of their reliance on fossil fuels. A "bear case" carbon price of $10/tonne to $100/tonne could cut Asia Pacific companies' earnings per share by 4% to 41%, while cutting S&P500 companies' ...

40% of Chinese Coal Power Plants are Losing Money: Carbon Tracker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... money, and this could rise to 95% by 2040 because of the cost of complying with air pollution regulations and a rising carbon price. "There are a couple of obvious applications for the research," Gray said. "It will help with disclosure initiatives ...