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Climate adaptation presents $100bn opp: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
There is an urgent need for investments to protect against escalating climate risks and minimise capital flight from vulnerable areas as the globe careens closer to a runaway climate change scenario. At the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) summit ...

Australia among the leaders in lowering carbon emissions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Defying the global increase of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel, Australia has slashed its emissions year-on-year, a trend likely to continue. A research report 'The Global Carbon Budget' released this week in time for COP29 found the ...

Australia waits for 2035 target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... urges investors to heed sector decarbonisation plans as the nation waits for Canberra to announce its 2035 emissions reduction target. The date of release for the government's 2035 target has yet to be announced and could be delayed until after the ...

ASIC clarifies licensing rules for carbon market

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Mechanism credit units (SMCs), which will be issued by the Clean Energy Regulator from January 2025 to incentivise emissions reduction. Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA), Carbon Market Institute (CMI), Corporate Carbon, Kimberley Land Council ...

Clean energy approvals increase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... time last year. Businesses that fall under the Safeguard Mechanism - that are relying on ACCUs to meet their emissions reduction targets - invested heavily in offsets in anticipation of their compliance obligations. Under the Safeguard Mechanism, Australia's ...

Investors worth $42trn target state leaders at COP29

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... years to go before 2030, when many countries are due to hit their climate goals, including Australia's emissions reduction target of 43%. But capital is lacking to fund climate solutions to enable the world to reach its targets, according to Rebecca ...

Study finds answer to land use battle

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... market and technological barriers to clean energy rollout. Large-scale solar is vital to meeting Australia's emissions reduction targets of 48% and renewable energy target of 82% by 2030, according to the department of climate change, energy, the environment ...

CareSuper ousts ESG policies in merger

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... abandoned. Instead, CareSuper will recalibrate the merged fund's exclusion criteria, portfolio emissions baseline, emissions reduction roadmap and interim targets, to ensure they are "fit-for-purpose" for the merged fund's portfolio. The following ...

Canberra to expand ACCU scheme

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
The Albanese government will step up efforts to attract converts to the Australian 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. ...

KPMG prints first climate risk report

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... have now publicly set Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) approved net zero targets, and 69% set other emissions reduction targets. "It is in KPMG Australia's best interests to be adequately prepared for both the risks and opportunities that ...