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ASIC clarifies licensing rules for carbon market

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Mechanism credit units (SMCs), which will be issued by the Clean Energy Regulator from January 2025 to incentivise emissions reduction. Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA), Carbon Market Institute (CMI), Corporate Carbon, Kimberley Land Council ...

Clean energy approvals increase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... time last year. Businesses that fall under the Safeguard Mechanism - that are relying on ACCUs to meet their emissions reduction targets - invested heavily in offsets in anticipation of their compliance obligations. Under the Safeguard Mechanism, Australia's ...

Investors worth $42trn target state leaders at COP29

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... years to go before 2030, when many countries are due to hit their climate goals, including Australia's emissions reduction target of 43%. But capital is lacking to fund climate solutions to enable the world to reach its targets, according to Rebecca ...

Study finds answer to land use battle

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... market and technological barriers to clean energy rollout. Large-scale solar is vital to meeting Australia's emissions reduction targets of 48% and renewable energy target of 82% by 2030, according to the department of climate change, energy, the environment ...

CareSuper ousts ESG policies in merger

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... abandoned. Instead, CareSuper will recalibrate the merged fund's exclusion criteria, portfolio emissions baseline, emissions reduction roadmap and interim targets, to ensure they are "fit-for-purpose" for the merged fund's portfolio. The following ...

Canberra to expand ACCU scheme

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
The Albanese government will step up efforts to attract converts to the Australian carbon offsets market and firm up its integrity. Last year the Climate Change Authority undertook a review of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011. ...

KPMG prints first climate risk report

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... have now publicly set Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) approved net zero targets, and 69% set other emissions reduction targets. "It is in KPMG Australia's best interests to be adequately prepared for both the risks and opportunities that ...

Disorderly transition may spark financial meltdown

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... their NDCs ahead of the 30th United Nations climate change conference ('COP30') in Brazil in 2025. NDCs are emissions reduction commitments that signatories made under the Paris Agreement, an international binding treaty to keep warming this century ...

First Environmental Futures trade on ASX

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... carbon futures contracts will improve access to carbon markets to allow market participants to price and hedge emissions reduction risk. The three futures contracts available today on the ASX 24 Market are: physically delivered Large Generation Certificate ...

Tech giant hits environment target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... power our operations for decades to come." Earlier this year, PUMA announced it had reached its science-based emissions reduction target seven years ahead of schedule. The sports retailer has now been named one of the world's most sustainable companies ...