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Energy market not fit for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Renewable Energy Zones are not enough, both argue. CEIG calls on the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water to redesign NEM market settings to ensure both the coordination and the financeability of the investments at least cost ...

Looming climate audits expose talent crunch

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Approved this week, Australia's new sustainability audit timelines have sparked concerns around the readiness of businesses scrambling to fill a skills shortfall. Thousands of progressively smaller entities will gradually fall under the mandatory disclosure ...

Warakirri adds NSW citrus orchard to ag fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Company's Pacific Fresh Facility in Leeton. The asset, which also features first-class infrastructure and high security water entitlements, was purchased off-market for $15 million. It brings the total portfolio value of the Diversified Agriculture ...

Auditors tighten fist on greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... involved directly." However, professional services firm GHD came out against a ban, saying it would discourage investment and water down the quality of audits. Such local modifications are still being hammered out with stakeholders, courtesy of the Australian ...

TNFD adds to sector guidance, scores funding

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... released for consultation draft guidance on a further three sectors: fishing, marine transportation and cruise lines, and water utilities and services. Stakeholders have until April 4 to submit their feedback. It comes just a day after The Rockefeller ...

Green budgets fatten amid global uncertainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... companies, followed by solar energy. Sustainable research and development, biodiversity protection and restoration, and water conservation and management are also top areas pinned for expenditure. Global investment manager Ninety One predicts such innovations ...

Partners Group promotes local staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... team is building a diversified portfolio of royalties across several sectors, including music, sports, pharmaceuticals, water, and franchise. "It's an enormous industry. We will raise funds and invest it. And are now one of the largest players in ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... oil, soy, timber, cocoa, coffee, and rubber are the biggest drivers of deforestation, resulting in soil fertility decline, water stress, and exponential carbon emissions through destruction of carbon sinks. Brazil accounted for the most biodiversity ...

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

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... ensure investment, underwriting and lending activities are aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 14... 'life below water' - enabling financial institutions to rebuild ocean prosperity, restore biodiversity and regenerate ocean health. This follows ...

Podcast: Investing in PFAS solutions with Georgia Hall

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
In August, it was revealed that PFAS known as 'forever chemicals' have been found in water filtration plants and even in platypus livers across NSW, which Australian authorities said were at a 'safe' level of exposure for the population ...