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Growing scope for investing in natural capital: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... funds offer very low or no recurring yields, with 16% of funds' returns almost entirely driven by carbon credit production and the rest seeing commercial returns supplemented with carbon credit revenue." In timberland, fund offerings range from value-added ...

Climate Change Authority releases ACCU and NGERS reviews

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... response to all the recommendations by mid-2024. NGERS is used to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions and energy production and use. In its second review of the NGER legislation, the CCA primarily focused on NGERS, citing insufficient availability ...

COP28: "Weak" Global Stocktake slammed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... technologies including nuclear, carbon capture utilisation and storage, and hydrogen energy Reduce consumption and production of fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner to achieve net zero by 2050 Reduce non-CO2 emissions such as methane ...

Agriculture funding takes the stage at COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... lending $92 billion to agro-business. Wollemi aggregates agro-climate and life-cycle emissions data for agricultural production sub-sectors, such as beef cattle, using a combination of public data and both public or open source data, which is also supplemented ...

Government sets stage for sovereign green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... also outlined excluded projects - nuclear energy arms and ammunition manufacturing and chemical weapons manufacture; production or sale of alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs manufacture or retail sale and distribution of any products and ...

Carbon credit review falls short on CO2 capture and slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... direct air capture with CCS. However, these approaches require large areas and could compete for land needed for food production and biodiversity habitat, and additionally place high demand on electricity networks. The CCA ACCU review argues that at ...

Loss and damage funds a key consideration for COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... renewable energy, such as the use of forced and child labour in cobalt mining and state-sponsored forced labour in the production of polysilicon that goes in to PV panels, as highlighted by NSW anti-slavery commissioner James Cockayne. "Efforts to promote ...

Only one sector set to meet emissions reduction targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... zero emissions by 2050. While steel and forestry show positive signs, these critical sectors alongside cement and food production are struggling to transition due to a lack of sufficient capital allocation and inadequate citizen support. The report assesses ...

H2Kwinana Hydrogen Hub gets $70m government backing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... developed. The H2Kwinana Hydrogen Hub will include a 100 MW electrolyser, with the potential to expand to a total of 1.5 GW production in subsequent phases, according to bp. It will create 150 jobs. Site works for H2Kwinana are already underway, with ...

New tools available to help investors meet Paris Agreement

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... 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 their performance against peers, the United Nations Sustainable Development ...