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A burning issue: decarbonising the global steel industry

ANNA CHONG, ANDY JONES  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Steel is essential in today's world, and it will be just as essential tomorrow - much of the technology to create a zero-carbon future, from wind turbines to mass transportation, will use steel in its construction. Yet steel production itself is ...

Assessing big tech's ESG risks and opportunities: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... their human rights impacts, which are therefore mismanaged. This presents an investment risk." The social impact of technology companies is far ranging, stretching to customers, suppliers and employees. Piffaut noted that Facebook has 2.8 billion users ...

Women make strides on ASX300 boards, but cultural diversity lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... board members have a PhD compared to 5% of males. And 22.1% females have an MBA, compared to 16.9% of males. Those with technology, healthcare and property experience are starting to entrench themselves at board level, and while accounting and financial ...

Infrastructure to offer opportunity for decarbonisation investment: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... the gas sector, gas is going to be a bridging fuel, but we have a lot of work to do to commercialise green hydrogen technology and then work out how we transport it," he said. "We have the next 10 years really to crack that nut, and the 2030s become ...

Carbon capture and storage questioned after Chevron result

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... has failed to meet targets to sequester carbon emissions from an LNG facility, raising questions as the role that CCS technology can play in reaching decarbonisation targets within the oil and gas industry. On Monday, Chevron, the operator of the CCS ...

Calculating the value of green transitions: UBS AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... provides the link between green CAPEX and OPEX, and emission reductions. UBS can then examine how currently available technology can be leveraged to abate carbon emissions between now and 2030, following the abatement cost curve. Given results from the ...

ASX in running to develop Australian carbon exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... of the outcomes before the end of March 2022. "Following the execution of contracts, we are expecting a significant technology build," the spokesperson added. CER's Quarterly Carbon Market Report for the fourth quarter of 2020 noted a record 16 million ...

Role of oil and gas in net zero emission future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... possible utilising technologies that offset or sequester the carbon emissions of LNG. "We have the scale, we have the technology, we have the deep relationships with customers, and we have technologies that are available today,... and technology for ...

Oil and gas industry debate green hydrogen future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... shouldn't mean that companies don't try to catalyse the blue and green hydrogen industry. Woodside vice president of technology Jason Crusan said that it's important to take the first steps in producing hydrogen and not necessarily looking to the end ...

SGX CEO calls for increased international collaboration on sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... urgent need for the multiple stakeholders to work together to enhance policies, regulation, data, taxonomy and use of technology, among others," he said. Loh noted that exchanges such as SGX have a role to play in this, pointing to the fact that SGX-listed ...