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Solving carbon credit concerns with blockchain

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... said. Further project developers include a direct air capture company, and a clean-tech firm recycling used motor oil into high-grade group III synthetic lubricants. Justin Chapman, global head of Digital Assets and Financial Markets, at Northern Trust ...

Act now on carbon emissions to avoid higher costs later: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... annual decline in baseline emissions and what it will do to drive behavioural changes," Herd said. Herd said that demand for high quality credits will also rise, noting "we're having a robust discussion on the types of offset and the use of offsets ...

Mandatory climate reporting challenges directors: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... lift from current state to end state," said AICD head of policy Christian Gergis. "We need to support our members to produce high quality climate disclosures and there is a real challenge for directors to get from the current state of reporting to end ...

Does sustainable investing underperform?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
The market value of sustainable ETFs has seen a meteoric rise, from about US$350 million in 2012 to almost US$100 billion at the end of 2022, but new research questions whether that growth was built with manager skill. 2020 saw large outperformance ...

Climate risk or opportunity for insurance sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... climate change to increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events like bushfires, heatwaves and droughts. Larger high-emissions assets are becoming uninsurable. For example, IAG will cease coverage for all fossil fuel extraction or coal-fired ...

UniSuper, pension funds buy forestry fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Contract secured at an ERF auction. The project was designed to convert from a short-rotation, 12 to 13 year planting of a high-intensity eucalyptus varietal to a pine plantation for saw logs over a 30-year growing cycle. "We have a long history with ...

Australian companies lagging on climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Australia's top carbon-emitting companies are still failing to align their decarbonisation targets with the end goal of containing global warming at 1.5° by 2050, according to the latest assessment by Climate Action 100+. Emissions at the 14 Australian ...

Brookfield buys UK Banks Renewables

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... and a capability to take the business forward. Brookfield vice president Sebastian Perl commented: "The United Kingdom is a high-quality location for renewable energy development and we are delighted to have made a further commitment to this market. ...

Climate fund assets reach half a trillion dollars

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... climate funds grew by 4% in the past 18 months to US$31.7 billion despite the Inflation Reduction Act. This is attributed to high oil and gas prices, as well as falling valuations in renewable energy stocks. European investors favour climate transition ...

Uni partnership to turbocharge innovation in CO2 product manufacturing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... contributions. Technologies under development hope to reduce and reuse carbon emissions and transform those emissions to high value products such as acetic acid, stock feed, methanol and other chemicals. The research focuses on developing useful, cost-efficient ...