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Green moves at Future Group, AusSuper, Birdwood, Minderoo, Mutual Trust

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... writing to 35 of the highest emitting companies in the FTSE 350 index including those in the oil and gas, utilities and mining sectors. It famously produces a Mental Health Benchmark ranking 101 UK-listed companies, on how they manage and report on workplace ...

Clean energy approvals increase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... emitters that emit more than 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year - including oil and gas producers, mining, and heavy industry - are forced reduce their emissions to the baseline or buy offsets to meet that baseline. "At the ...

Industry lobbying weakens nature laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... clean energy project approvals and the impact on sector investment by Nature Positive laws are the result of lobbying from mining groups, according to a finance think tank. Negotiations continue in Canberra over the proposed environmental protection ...

BHP, Rio Tinto, Qantas back carbon credits fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... of our farming communities and nature repair." Rio Tinto's chief decarbonisation officer Jonathon McCarthy said the mining giant is committed to decarbonising its operations and the new fund provides a solution while the technologies needed to do ...

ACCR cuts ties with Rio Tinto

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Mining giant Rio Tinto's political lobbying activities are a greenwashing risk, a breach of public trust, and a form of investor deception, according to ACCR. This week, a prominent shareholder advocacy group announced it cut ties after a year-long ...

Demand up for green steel

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR), surveyed 500 global investors in steelmaking, iron ore and metallurgical coal mining. A large proportion of respondents were portfolio managers, investment managers or investment directors. The majority of ...

Glass ceiling persists despite record women chairs

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... the end of June. Seven ASX 300 companies had no women on their boards: Latin Resources Limited, Cettire Limited, Sayona Mining Limited, Meteoric Resources NL, Talga Group Ltd, TerraCom Limited, and Core Lithium Ltd. The ASX 50 and 20 have more than 40% ...

LGIM, Generation, MUFG to report on nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... aquaculture, biotech and pharmaceutical, chemicals, energy and utilities, food and agriculture, forestry and paper, metals and mining, and oil and gas. David Craig, co-chair of the TNFD said the ongoing uptake "is further evidence that the mindset in ...

States and feds step up on nature and resources

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Peoples and Native Title groups. This includes a new hydrogen-based green iron plant for South Australia by 2030. Energy and mining minister Tom Koutsantonis plans to deliver a commercial de-risking strategy in partnership with industry to develop a ...

AI and crypto mining to drive energy opps: PGIM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
The rising consumption of all things digital - cloud computing, artificial intelligence and crypto mining - are giving fund managers new and unlikely sources of alpha in the global energy sector, PGIM research shows. In its investment report titled ...