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Corporate net zero plans at odds with anti-climate lobbying

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... zero, most are weakly aligned to their target and 58% engage in lobbying that contradicts their public goals. Woodside Energy, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Glencore, Nippon Steel Corporation, Repsol, and Stellantis, are among the 21.5% of companies assessed ...

H2Kwinana Hydrogen Hub gets $70m government backing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... vehicles a year in Australia's heavy vehicle fleet, according to an announcement from the Ministry for Climate Change and Energy. The project involves the installation of hydrogen storage, compression and truck loading facilities and upgrades to the ...

Macquarie opens clean energy arm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... world's biggest infrastructure asset manager, Macquarie Asset Management, has launched a $10 billion onshore renewable energy business to attract long-term investment capital. Aula Energy will develop and operate utility-scale wind, solar and integrated ...

La Trobe University inks sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... In August, La Trobe University issued a $175 million green bond designed to fund projects in areas including renewable energy, green building, sustainable water and waste management and other initiatives. The Melbourne-based university's inaugural ...

New tools available to help investors meet Paris Agreement

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Investing Network benchmark A new benchmark from the Global Impact Investing Network finds that impact investments in the energy sector decrease Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions while boosting energy production. The new benchmark helps investors compare ...

Sustainable bonds underperform on climate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... were committed to work on science-based targets, double the proportion among the other issuers. The only exception was the energy sector, for which the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) hasn't yet finalised a target-approval methodology. Labelled-bond ...

Investing during a disorderly transition: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... scenarios. The starting point in Australia was the electricity markets, where we could see how the transition to clean energy has been happening in a very messy way. There has been misalignment among policy, regulatory, investment and consumer signals ...

Finance eyes $500b green buildings opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... goals. To achieve net-zero carbon targets by 2050, Australia will need to electrify more than 500 homes a day, improve the energy efficiency of 100 more each day, and retrofit nearly 3.5% of current non-residential stock annually, a significant jump ...

Clean tech bags big bucks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
A small South Australian energy storage company has bagged a $750,000 grant from Woodside, taking total funding to $4.95 million, while Bupa has puts $280,000 towards six eco startups with $380,000 more on offer. SA energy storage rakes in $4.95m South ...

Preparing for COP28: nature and climate integration

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... a key strategy for accelerating action on biodiversity and helping move the needle." The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DEECCEEW) are hosting a global Nature Summit at the end of next year.