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How to build a climate-resilient business: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... addressing climate resilience. Increasingly, we are also observing organisations seeking to work more closely with their supply chain partners and customers to find innovative ways to address climate risk.

Preparing to take advantage of the critical mineral story

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... decarbonise iron and steel, we have the opportunity to help decarbonise 9% of global emissions through our existing supply chain outwards, and those granted license in extractives. "That's a stunning opportunity." Super funds in particular have a role ...

Bowen paints mixed outlook for energy future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... and the labour market. "The idea that there's just a linear line between now and 2030 or 2050, there's no supply chain challenges, labour force challenges, social license challenges, implementation challenges, bumps along the road just doesn't ...

Climate risk or opportunity for insurance sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Insurance leaders have reframed the challenge of climate risk as an opportunity, stating that physical risk from climate change is not the biggest challenge to insurance. Finity Consulting principal Rade Musulin and Swiss Reinsurance head of property ...

UniSuper, pension funds buy forestry fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... spanning approximately 90,000 hectares of productive plantation forest. It also owns key infrastructure along the supply chain consisting of two wood processing mills, a seedling nursery, fibre technology laboratory, and port access via a freehold facility ...

HESTA releases 2023 AGM hit list

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
Climate change, gender equality, decent work, and natural capital and biodiversity loss are priorities for one major Australian superfund when it comes to the 2023 ASX300 AGM season. HESTA, which has approximately $76 billion in assets under management ...

Public-private partnership to tackle VIC housing crisis

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... costs, and great outcomes for the residents." Some experts have criticised the proposal, with Edith Cowan University supply chain expert Flavio Macau commenting that the construction industry is currently grappling with soaring energy costs, while labour ...

Australian businesses failing to achieve on sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... down - it's not just scope 1 and 2, which is your operational emissions, it's scope 3, which is the upstream supply chain and the downstream supply chain, which is customers," Smith said. "It is incredibly hard to get data on upstream scope 3 ...

New net zero standard for miners

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... and policy risks, changing market demand, reputational risks, and navigating changing processes, technologies, and supply chain practices. The new framework arose from investors calling for comprehensive frameworks in order to drive the urgent and significant ...

NZ case for green hydrogen-powered flight

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... NZ government to take a key role in enabling this transition. It spent the last six months examining the hydrogen supply chain, evaluating the local aviation market's projected hydrogen requirements, and scoping what it would take to establish a successful ...