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Rockefeller org picks climate advisers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Xiye Bastida, Re-Earth Initiative director, Vera Songwe, economist, and Archana Soreng, activist. Despite being founded on oil money, in 2020 the foundation pledged it would divest from fossil fuels. John D Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, which ...

Big win for Great Artesian Basin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... most of Queensland would be running no stock and bringing no value to the state economy." The ban also extends to enhanced oil or petroleum recovery activities that use a greenhouse gas stream, the government said. "I've listened to Queenslanders and ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... that it eliminated investments that posed a risk to the environment and the community, including gambling, coal mining, and oil tar sands. Court documents showed that Active Super said it wouldn't invest in companies deriving more than 10% of their ...

Holdings fly in face of super duty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... fossil fuel exposure over the past two years to December 2023. Investments in the top 190 global companies with major coal, oil, and gas expansion plans rose to more than $39 billion, reaching nearly 9% of shares in default options, as a portion of listed ...

Fossil fuel funding down 20pc: study

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... year. The report's underlying data was compiled by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Sierra Club, Reclaim Finance, Urgewald, and the Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED). A ...

Member accuses UniSuper of greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... more than 10% of their reported revenues from fossil fuels, specifically the exploration or production of thermal coal or oil and gas. In a statement, UniSuper said: "Transurban meets the screening criteria applied to investments in the Sustainable Balanced ...

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

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... reached over $500 million, focusing on affordable housing and SME support in underserved communities. J.P. Morgan aligned its oil and gas target with the International Energy Agency's net zero by 2050 target - by including a greater energy mix. It updated ...

Funding green buildings risks greenwashing accusations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... and facilitative finance. It is the only big four bank reportedly without a substantive policy to restrict financing to new oil and gas, CEF says. "Banks need to actively reorient their lending if they are to align their climate rhetoric with their capital ...

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

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... Investments at Future Super, a superfund that invests for a fossil fuel free future. The 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 ...

Two new ETFs for Franklin Templeton

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... directly involved in producing controversial weapons, tobacco products, and mining or extracting thermal coal, or extracting oil from tar sands subject to a 10% revenue threshold. The Franklin Australian Absolute Return Bond Fund (FRAR) is an actively ...