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New tool tackles climate risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... analysis told the firm that North American multi-utilities and EV companies, and UK/European EV companies and contracted renewables, offer the most opportunity for investors interested in financing a faster rate of net zero transition. Feona Castro ...

Green Moves: S&P, SBTi, Macquarie, Anti-Slavery Commissioner

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... and sustainability lawyer (legal, governance and reporting) at Macquarie Group. Maquarie made notable investments in renewables assets in late 2024, including €420 million of debt financing to Nadara, one of Europe's largest renewable independent power ...

Australian Retirement Trust takes stake in Pattern Energy Group

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... Plan Investment Board and Pattern's management. The super fund said the investment will further cement its growing renewables portfolio and supports its Net Zero 2050 Roadmap objectives. Fundamentally, the injection by ART will advance Pattern Energy's ...

Big money urged to leverage influence

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... shareholder rights, decarbonisation policies for the built environment, vehicle emissions standards, and public investment in renewables. However, no asset owner fully utilised all levers of influence. Three-quarters lacked stewardship on climate policy ...

Investors "not interested" in nuclear

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... Conservation Foundation. CSIRO's GenCost report ranks nuclear power as the most expensive option - double the cost of renewables. They're not the only ones to have come out against the Coalition's costings estimate, released through media this week. ...

Investors welcome Future Made in Australia bills

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... The bills establish the voluntary Guarantee of Origin (GO) scheme to authenticate low-emissions products and support renewables. Also, the House of Representatives passed a production tax incentive for hydrogen and critical minerals, which allows Indigenous ...

Super funds set renewables targets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... at a recent Treasury investor roundtable to progress work towards encouraging greater investment in Australia's renewables transition. The roundtable was for the Net Zero Transition Working Group to consider ASFA'S Toward an energy transition ...

Australia among the leaders in lowering carbon emissions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Change (IGCC) summit last week. "No one here would argue that there aren't challenges with getting more utility renewables into the grid but it's happening," he said, adding that the last two months posted the lowest penetration of coal in the ...

Back on the huddle, fund flows into clean energy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... the 30th October, we hit the highest renewable penetration recorded, at nearly 75 per cent." "Five years ago, peak renewables in the system only reached around 46 per cent. This progress is an indication of what is possible." Rebecca Mikula-Wright, IGCC ...

Battery storage the next energy disruptor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... be a major competitor to wind and critical [minerals] technology," said Monique Miller, chief investment officer, of renewables and sustainable finance at Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Fortune Business Insights forecast last month that the global ...