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US rejects SDGs, Agenda 2030

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... 2021 initiative that mobilised financial resources to assist developing countries to reduce and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the impacts of climate change, with immediate effect. Australia endorsed Agenda 2030 in 2015 under then-foreign ...

HSBC adds 20 years to net zero ambitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... 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 operations ...

Asset managers react to news 2C is 'dead'

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... 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 to an academic ...

Green bank returns $5.4bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... 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 vehicles, which ...

Australian Retirement Trust takes stake in Pattern Energy Group

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... supporting our Net Zero 2050 Roadmap." The initiative was announced last year, with ART committing to slash greenhouse gas emissions in its investment portfolio to net zero by 2050. Pattern Energy chief executive Hunter Armistead believes the newcomers ...

81 major investors lock in climate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... that have set targets. The industry-led asset owner alliance said members have reduced absolute financed greenhouse gas emissions by an average of at least 6% annually, putting them on track to meet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's ...

Industry lobbying weakens nature laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... fuels. "Yet Australia's main environmental law does not currently require decision-makers to consider greenhouse gas emissions or climate change impacts when assessing projects." The BCA declined to comment.

Executives urge Canberra to move faster

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Aussie executives unanimously believe in their companies' ability to grow while reducing greenhouse gas emissions but want Canberra to move faster, according to Deloitte. The professional services firm's annual CxO Sustainability Report, which ...

Natural gas buyout bulldozes investors: Analysts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... on carbon capture and storage... genuine carbon reduction should be the priority to effectively lower greenhouse gas emissions." While Woodside scores better on overall ESG risk than its S&P/ ASX 300 energy sector peers, according to Hall, the purchase ...

Microsoft makes largest ever offset purchase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... undisclosed sum. The captured CO2 "will not be used to produce oil and gas". Microsoft's overall greenhouse gas emissions were 15.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) in financial year 2023. This is an increase of 29.1% from ...