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Budget 2024: Additional $11.3bn promised for housing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... billion will be invested to get homes built sooner with funding to go towards states and territories to build roads, sewers, energy, water, and community infrastructure needed for new homes and additional social housing. In addition, a new $9.3 billion ...

Budget 2024: A win for clean energy, not environment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
The Federal Budget is an "excellent down-payment" on clean energy - but fails on nature and biodiversity, gas, electrification, and ACCUs. Treasurer Jim Chalmers aims to unlock $65 billion in renewables by 2030 through the Capacity Investment Scheme. ...

ASIC consults on guidance for carbon markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Credit Units (ACCUs). "As background, the safeguard mechanism reforms commenced on 1 July 2023 and will allow the Clean Energy Regulator to issue a new type of carbon product- safeguard mechanism credit units (SMCs)-from January 2025. SMCs are a type ...

BlackRock-Temasek closes at US$1.4 bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... under development over the past two years. Larry Fink, BlackRock chair and CEO commented: "There is enormous demand for energy infrastructure as many countries seek to transition to lower-carbon sources of power while also achieving energy security. ...

Active ownership is the new sheriff in town

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... transition plans. Of 31 companies that it had on review, six received a warning to lift their game. This included Woodside Energy, which Aware Super had publicly slammed last month for its unclear climate plan. On gender diversity, Stewart praised the ...

J.P. Morgan vows $2.5 tn for sustainable development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... carbon neutrality by 2030. In 2023 the firm invested over $200 billion towards green financing initiatives, including clean energy projects and green bonds, as well as $120 bn towards development finance. Fund flows to community development programs ...

UniSuper invests $623m in Macquarie green fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024  |  NEWS
UniSuper announced it has committed up to US$400 million (AU$623 million) to the Macquarie Green Energy and Climate Opportunities Fund (MGECO). MGECO is an open-ended fund that invests in large scale, mature sustainable technologies to support the transition ...

Funding green buildings risks greenwashing accusations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Climate Energy Finance (CEF) says buildings are the "low-hanging fruit" that make up the lion's share of the big four banks' sustainable finance target (SFT) of $385 billion by 2030 - while just 7% flows to financing clean energy and hard-to-abate sectors. ...

Competition watchdog exec first boss at think tank

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... immense economic opportunities of the post-carbon world". Mullen will work towards helping Australia leverage its renewable energy resources and scientific and engineering capabilities, to become a green export "superpower". This includes furthering ...

Podcast: Divestment, impact, and all that good stuff with Sharon Davis of Future Super

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... superannuation firm has no coal, oil and gas holdings, and an ethos rooted in ethical investment with a focus on clean energy and social impact projects. The pair chat impact investing, stewardship (proxy voting and engagements), and how to approach ...