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Green careers in silent crisis

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... practitioners in smaller organisations often suffer higher stress due to broader responsibilities and limited resources. Resilience and conflict negotiation key The UK study found feelings of sadness, isolation, worry, anger, guilt, and disgust were ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... VFMC's chief executive from 2016 to 2021. Running fire drills From the start, Gray realised that building greater resilience in the fund's investment performance and capability was critical to surviving an unpredictable future. And while funds ...

QIC Real Estate secures $3.75bn SLL

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... QIC managing director Deborah Coakley said the fund conversion would move the real estate portfolio towards climate resilience. "Sustainable finance is an effective and critically important tool to deliver sustainability goals in a commercially responsible ...

Podcast: Everything you missed at COP29 climate conference with Richie Merzian

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... Azerbaijan. The main decision was how to pay for poorer nations' climate financing - decarbonisation, adaptation, and resilience to climate impacts - which are hitting them hardest despite contributing the least. The major win of the event was an ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... net zero, increasing the supply of residential housing in Australia, and improving infrastructure including economic resilience ad security infrastructure. While priorities now, they are not new areas of investment for Future Fund. The fund has had a ...

COP29 skirts diplomatic disaster

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... remarkably, given the global political context, managed achievements including to lay out goals for decarbonisation and resilience investments in developing nations," said John Connor, CMI CEO. "There are now important decisions to be made on how Australia ...

COP fails to bridge yawning funding gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... and effective mobilisation of both public and private capital is needed to drive climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience, particularly focusing on the needs of developing nations. Global climate finance reached $1.3 trillion a year in 2021/2022 ...

Climate adaptation presents $100bn opp: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... change scenario. At the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) summit held in Melbourne recently, the spotlight was on resilience and adaptation. According to Nicolette Botha, Head of Climate Resilience Services APAC at Zurich Resilience Solutions ...

As water rises, insurer swims against tide

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... companies on its customer list, staring down the barrel of climate change, its hedging its bets on this discount. The 'resilience credit' will be applied as a 5% premium offset against eligible FM policies. With US$400 million of extra discounts ...

Green finance lags as planet on high alert

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... next year." Australian corporates and government have set strong targets, accelerated electrification, adaptation and resilience, while also progressing nature integration, reporting and transparency. This comes as a major, a first-of-its-kind scientific ...