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Social and governance factors top "new risk reality"

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... governance issues accounted for 73% and 65% of sustainability efforts respectively. A focus on energy, waste and carbon emissions accounts for 88% of sustainability efforts, with large companies devoting 95% of resources to environmental issues. Strong ...

China relaunches offsets market, releases biodiversity framework

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... reported. ETS is the largest carbon trading market by greenhouse gas volume, covering around 4.7 billion tonnes of carbon emissions in 2022, according to International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP). ICAP is the forum for jurisdictions that have implemented ...

Element Zero raises US$10M for zero-carbon iron

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Zero will help transform Western Australia from the world's mine into the world's foundry, dramatically reducing carbon emissions in the process," co-founder and general partner of Playground Global, Peter Barrett, said. "Australia is poised to become ...

Northern Trust pulled up for greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... global fund manager alleged false and misleading statements in the application of its negative screening for carbon emissions. The firm claimed its NT World Green Transition Index Fund excluded companies that "derive 5% or more of their total annual ...

COP28 key outcomes: what it means for finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... decarbonising their direct emissions and reducing methane emissions, and over 100 countries committing to reduce carbon emissions in food and land-use. The Australian government rejoined the global Green Climate Fund with an initial contribution of $50 ...

Finance eyes $500b green buildings opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian dollars, ahead of mandatory emissions data disclosures due in 2024. Buildings contribute 39% of global carbon emissions, account for 50% of Australia's electricity consumption, and, in their day-to-day operations, constitute 23% of total ...

Clean tech bags big bucks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... latent heat capacity, powered by intermittent renewables, for large industrial applications without generating carbon emissions. The energy storage company has now received a total of $4.95 million in grant funding, including $2.2 million from the Australian ...

Assessing companies ability to make the low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... are based on five key climate considerations - "company exposure to green revenues, fossil fuel reserves and carbon emissions, as well as companies' climate governance activities (aligned with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures' ...

A portfolio approach for renewable investment: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Energetics Decarbonising Australia's national energy market is a central tenant to achieving the goal of reducing carbon emissions in line limiting global warming to 1.5°C. But there is investment risk related to the timing of when renewable energy ...

ESG factors increasingly drive financial decisions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... 66% of managers reporting ESG metrics for all funds, an increase from 59% in 2022. The top reported metric was carbon emissions (56%), followed by diversity statistics which rose from 19% in 2022 to 24%. More than a quarter (27%) of asset managers are ...