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Finance realignment urged as nature-positive trails 30:1

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Inger Andersen, executive director of UNEP, pointed to the key role of Indigenous Peoples in addressing sustainable development goals. "Nature-based solutions are dramatically underfunded. Annual nature-negative investments are over 30 times larger than ...

Government sets stage for sovereign green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... eligible projects have been defined in alignment to the ICMA green categories and further aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals. Categories include renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transportation, green buildings, climate change adaptation ...

Progress on Australia's sustainable finance taxonomy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) has published two methodology papers towards the development of Australia's sustainable finance taxonomy. To achieve Australia's goals for renewables deployment, there is a growing pipeline of public ...

Nature Market Repair Bill passes Senate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... framework to be 'essentially sound'." CMI said the operational details of the bill will be "critical," including the development of biodiversity certification methodologies, how it will operate in parallel with Australia's existing carbon market, clarity ...

COP28: Australia signs Glasgow statement to end public finance for fossil fuels

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... crisis. "In recent years, Australia has funnelled up to one-fifth of our international aid annually to multilateral development banks like the World Bank, which are still funding fossil fuel projects. Precious aid dollars should lift people in low-income ...

Australia joins COP28 gender and just transition partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Pollination named adviser to blended finance climate fund Also on Day Four, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and Development Finance Institute Canada (FinDev Canada) announced the creation of GAIA, a US$1.5 billion target private debt blended finance ...

COP28: Climate finance, carbon markets take centre stage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... new Global Biodiversity Framework, committing US$2.59 billion from public and private sources, and emphasising the development goals of local and indigenous communities. Water featured on the agenda for the second time in a COP, with a focus on water ...

COP28: Countries tackle coal as President claims "no science" behind phase-out

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... "Please, help me, show me a roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuels that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves." Carbon credits to phase out coal Announced on Saturday, a US-led Energy ...

SDG Loan Fund raises $1.1b of investor capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
Investors have raised over US$1.1 billion of capital to advance the goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in emerging and frontier markets, using a blended finance model. Allianz Global Investors is managing the SDG Loan Fund ...

Net zero roadmap shifts public service spending to green

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... it will publish by January 2025, ad is developing a scope 3 cost modelling assessment and work with agencies in its development. The procurement policy phase in requirements for construction services, ICT, textiles, and furniture, fixtures and equipment. ...