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Carbon Market Report shows positive momentum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... uses the average emissions intensity of the electricity grid rather than assuming renewables are solely displacing coal and gas generation. "We issued a record 18.8 million Australian carbon credit units (ACCUs) in 2024, with a total of 53.9 million ...

Green moves: Re-Vi, Aware Super, Insignia Financial

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Re-Vi Group has a new chief executive, while VFMC loses a sustainability specialist and Aware Super hires an AI expert. Australian climate tech and biochar company Re-Vi Group has appointed Radha Kuppalli as chief executive. Kuppalli joins from New ...

Super moves: Qantas Super, VFMC, AusSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Qantas Super deputy investment officer has moved to Cambooya, the family office for the Fairfax family. Chris Grogan joins Cambooya in the same role. The investment professional was also Qantas Super's head of defensive assets. In that role, he ...

HSBC adds 20 years to net zero ambitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... our operations, travel, and supply chain by 2050." Last year, HSBC reported a reduction in absolute operational greenhouse gas emissions based on energy and business travel of 66.1% from its 2019 baseline. In 2020, HSBC pledged to reach net zero in its ...

Banks' culture, conduct has government committee 'deeply concerned'

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... contribute to human rights issues. The committee also highlighted growing concerns around the banks' continued lending to the gas industry and other fossil fuel projects. During the inquiry's public hearings, some of the banks told the committee that ...

Podcast: Decommissioning offshore oil and gas with Joshua Runciman

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... cause large-scale damage through chemical and heavy-metal pollutants. With LNG markets declining and ageing offshore oil and gas infrastructure representing an environmental safety risk, titleholders are now having to decommission offshore infrastructure. ...

Asset managers react to news 2C is 'dead'

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Century. "Even though we've only had a single calendar year at over 1.5C, the warming trend is so strong and our greenhouse gas emissions so high that it's very likely we're now crossing it." 2°C is expected to be breached in 2030, according ...

Investors and business leaders call for end to 'weak' net zero pledge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... a clear and transparent roadmap to end fossil fuels. Despite growing renewables, Australia has never curtailed new oil and gas expansion, with projects like Woodside's Scarborough and Santos' Barossa proceeding under government support for gas as a "transition ...

Energy market not fit for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... zero transition, according to the Clean Energy Investor Group (CEIG). Market settings are outdated and built for the coal and gas era, says CEIG chief executive Richie Merzian. Merzian is concerned that large-scale energy projects in wind, solar, and ...

Green bank returns $5.4bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... efficiency and low emissions technologies, to "facilitate increased flows of finance into the clean energy sector and... greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets". CEFC has "made considerable progress in finance for household sustainability and electric ...