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Industry lobbying weakens nature laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... fuels. "Yet Australia's main environmental law does not currently require decision-makers to consider greenhouse gas emissions or climate change impacts when assessing projects." The BCA declined to comment.

Executives urge Canberra to move faster

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Aussie executives unanimously believe in their companies' ability to grow while reducing greenhouse gas emissions but want Canberra to move faster, according to Deloitte. The professional services firm's annual CxO Sustainability Report, which ...

Natural gas buyout bulldozes investors: Analysts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... on carbon capture and storage... genuine carbon reduction should be the priority to effectively lower greenhouse gas emissions." While Woodside scores better on overall ESG risk than its S&P/ ASX 300 energy sector peers, according to Hall, the purchase ...

Microsoft makes largest ever offset purchase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... undisclosed sum. The captured CO2 "will not be used to produce oil and gas". Microsoft's overall greenhouse gas emissions were 15.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) in financial year 2023. This is an increase of 29.1% from ...

Climate philanthropists lend muscle to green metal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... devastating impact that climate change is having on our communities." She added that reducing the impact of greenhouse gas emissions has so many knock-on effects for many of the other areas outside climate change that philanthropy funds, such as disaster ...

Cromwell restructures lending facility

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... our most ambitious target to date, as part of this new sustainability-linked loan - to reduce scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions intensity to equal, or less than, 30.16 (kgCO2e/m2) by 2028. "This is equal to eliminating more than 4.4 million kilograms ...

Rockefeller org picks climate advisers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... once controlled over 90% of US oil production, set up the organisation in 1913. It will target net zero greenhouse gas emissions for its endowment by 2050. According to the institution this makes it the largest private US foundation to make this commitment ...

Global investors unite for Climate Action 100+

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... State Common Retirement Fund. The world's largest investor-led engagement initiative on corporate greenhouse gas emissions received backing from asset owners representing US$4.6 trillion in assets. The asset owners said they are "fully committed" ...

Subsidiaries must comply with Aussie regime

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... because of local differences that, as an example, require the use of NGER Scheme legislation to measure greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) emissions." Reporting obligations under the Corporations Act apply to individual entities, meaning that inbound Australian ...

Member accuses UniSuper of greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... climate and other pollution," the member said. "Road transport causes about 20% of Australia's total greenhouse gas emissions. While other sectors, such as electricity generation, are reducing their emissions in line with Australia's net zero target ...