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Renewables set to dominate by 2040

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Perspective 2023 predicts that renewables cost will decline, however current active policies are insufficient to meet the Paris Agreement target of containing global warming at 1.5C. With record growth in areas such as EV sales and renewable energy ...

Investors call for multilateral financial architecture overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... past 12 months to August, have committed to transitioning their investment portfolios to net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. Paris-aligned NZAOA is convened by United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and Principles for Responsible Investment ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... warming potential values from the same Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report as that applying under the Paris Agreement and the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 and related regulations (NGER Scheme legislation)." ...

ASX50 lags on disclosure of political spending: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... regularly engages - against the Global Standard for Responsible Climate Lobbying, an investor-led framework for assessing Paris-alignment of corporate climate policy engagement. ACCR focused on those companies on the grounds that the energy and resources ...

Reducing risk and navigating a just transition

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... jobs will be created in areas like clean energy, EVs and energy efficiency, if we are to strive towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. "An economic transition plan that pays attention to the 8500 or so coal-fired power jobs that could be lost in Australia ...

Record climate spending for low and middle-income economies

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... the agenda. Governments are expected to collectively be spending US$100 billion per year on climate finance to meet the Paris Agreement. MDBs, owned and funded by multiple member countries and operating on a multilateral basis, delivered a combined total ...

Arup becomes approved verifier for Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... financing is "accelerating" in Australia due to investors and developers seeking to demonstrate how their projects meet the Paris Agreement. "Being an approved verifier for Climate Bonds enables Arup to support investors and lenders more fulsomely to ...

Australian companies lagging on climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... disclosures and emissions reductions commitments, but actions are still falling well short of ambition to align with 1.5 Paris goal," said Richard Proudlove, director of corporate engagement at the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), one of five ...

Danish pension fund completes US$520m divestment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... commented. "For AkademikerPension, this is the main reason for the exclusion, as there is no room for new fossil fuel projects in Paris-compatible scenarios, according to the International Energy Agency, and we believe that doing so exposes ENI to unacceptable ...

HESTA releases 2023 AGM hit list

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... on ASX 300 companies to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement. A participant in investor-led initiative Climate Action 100+, HESTA is encouraging the companies it invests in to ...