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EPBC Act reforms offer clearer decarbonisation pathway: Fund manager

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and related reduction plans, and it maintains federal approval of water trigger coal and gas projects. A new Streamlined Assessment Pathway will be introduced, which incentivises firms to meet reporting requirements ...

Biodiversity risk is transforming ESG reporting: Lonsec

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
Recent analysis by Lonsec of its fund managers indicates a sharp uptick in biodiversity related disclosures. Spanning a demographic of 300, the number of managers reporting a policy position on biodiversity has spiked, rising from 21 to 72 in the past ...

Australia emerges as corporate climate leader: MSCI

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
... generators and fossil fuel produces face some of the highest financial pressures to decarbonise in the region, driven by global coal phase-outs and the domestic Safeguard Mechanism. Disclosure rates among listed Australian firms also rose from 50% in ...

Net Zero Asset Managers resumes operations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) is resuming operations after taking a pause in January, saying it is now ready for a new chapter. The alliance, which had more than 300 members at one point, said it has updated it commitment statement that has been shared ...

A new leader emerges in global energy transition

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... and high transmission lines. They are both a hero and a villain [in the energy transition] because they're still building coal plants, but they're only using the new ones at less than 50% utilisation." Gore added that earlier this year, many people were ...

Matt Kean calls for greater private investment in transition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... of opportunity to invest in things that get regulated returns and actually do what we need to do, which is replace aging coal fired power, which is coming out of the system, whether Barnaby Joyce likes it or not," Kean said. "I mean 90-95% of the coal ...

Grattan calls for expanding Safeguard Mechanism to electricity sector

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Grattan Institute has recommended expansion of the Safeguard Mechanism, the federal government policy constraining emissions by big industry, to the electricity sector. The new report, Bills down, emissions down: A practical path to net-zero electricity ...

Climate finance groups call for stronger regulations

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... finding inspiration in Carney's speech, Lloyd's of London has announced it will not discourage insurance coverage for new coal and fossil fuel projects. Closer to home, Australian Super, has reinvested in coal. It is the biggest investor in Whitehaven ...

Australian investors to struggle to meet 2035 climate targets: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... modelling, the report reveals that all segments of the economy will require structural transformation. This includes faster coal plant closures, rapid deployment of renewables, the electrification of households and transport as well as industrial process ...

Government hands down 2035 climate target

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... fails to pledge commitment to phase out fossil fuels. "Anything less than a 75% cut this decade backed by a plan to phase out coal, oil and gas is not a climate plan, it's a denial of climate justice," 350.org deputy head of regions Fenton Lutunatabua ...