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No charge for carbon target failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... understand how companies are preparing for the inevitable process of implementing significant strategies for climate resilience and adaptation." The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) is confident Australia's mandatory reporting rules will make ...

QIC Real Estate secures $3.75bn SLL

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... QIC managing director Deborah Coakley said the fund conversion would move the real estate portfolio towards climate resilience. "Sustainable finance is an effective and critically important tool to deliver sustainability goals in a commercially responsible ...

Climate adaptation presents $100bn opp: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... in Melbourne recently, the spotlight was on resilience and adaptation. According to Nicolette Botha, Head of Climate Resilience Services APAC at Zurich Resilience Solutions, this could be a $100 billion opportunity - but this figure could be much higher. ...

Ancient ideas fuel new strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... strategy seeks to move past compliance and risk management when it comes to Indigenous issues, and focus on climate resilience and responsible investing. Indigenous financial wellbeing organisation Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) recently launched ...

CBA launches green business loan

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... financing option for enterprises to fund sustainability projects like renewable energy, energy-efficient upgrades, climate resilience, and nature protection. The Business Green Loan supports organisations seeking to bolster environmental conservation ...

Sunshine state issues $2.75bn green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Proceeds from the bonds are allocated against qualifying projects and assets that support Queensland's pathway to climate resilience and an environmentally sustainable economy, said QTC head of funding strategy and investor relations Jose Fajardo. Assets ...

Treasury issues statement on systemic climate risk to government bonds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... home buyback schemes, public housing projects, farm relocation assistance and the like", as well as improving climate resilience of government infrastructure. However, since Australia is wealthy and has never defaulted on its sovereign debt, it would ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... 2 degrees, what does that mean? Is it a threat or an opportunity." Entities would be required to "undertake climate resilience assessments against at least two possible future states, one of which must be consistent with the most ambitious global temperature ...

How to build a climate-resilient business: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... institutional investors. Q&A with Bahador Tari, general manager - strategy, Energetics Q: How does Energetics define climate resilience and climate adaptation and why is it so strategically important for companies and investors? A: As physical and transition ...

Record climate spending for low and middle-income economies

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... finance to move from the billions to trillions required to cut greenhouse gas emissions and urgently scale up climate resilience both now and into the future."