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Fossil-fuel engagements require flexibility, not confrontation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... companies with the goal to phase out their core business. For example, Greenpeace Australia Pacific played a key role in urging AGL to bring forward their coal closure deadlines to 2035, 13 years earlier than originally planned. The nonprofit campaigned ...

Mercer Super cops landmark $11.3m greenwashing penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... options, however, invested in 15 companies involved in the extraction or sale of carbon intensive fossil fuels, including AGL Energy, BHP Group, Glencore PLC, and Whitehaven Coal. Another 15 companies produced alcohol, including Budweiser Brewing Company ...

Disability inclusion is a financial issue

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... improvement costs can be minimal, and usually total less than $500 per person, said Hilary Thorpe, head of legal - corporate at AGL. There is an imperative for firms to treat disability inclusion as a materially financial issue, Chris Newton, founder ...

Investors fail to vote for climate despite pledges

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... Nearly 50 Australian fund managers and asset owners belong to the organisation, and Australian focus companies include Adbri, AGL, BHP, Bluescope Steel, Boral, Incitec Pivot, Orica, Origin Energy, Qantas, Rio Tinto, Santos, South32, Woodside and Woolworths. ...

Flawed carbon credits add to business risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... emissions reduction requirements under the Safeguard Mechanism. They could face financial penalties of $250 per tonne of CO2-e. AGL, EnergyAustralia, and Origin Energy - Australia's top three emitters - reported Scope 1 emissions of a respective ...

Global managers drop out, scale back on Climate Action 100+

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Nearly 50 Australian fund managers and asset owners belong to the organisation, and Australian focus companies include Adbri, AGL, BHP, Bluescope Steel, Boral, Incitec Pivot, Orica, Origin Energy, Qantas, Rio Tinto, Santos, South32, Woodside and Woolworths. ...

Grok Ventures appoints new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... management (Goterra), finance and project developers (Brighte, SunCable, Solar Bay). Grok remains the largest shareholder in AGL Energy after a failed bid to privitise the company in 2022 in partnership with Brookfield.

Brookfield reaches first close on second transition fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... has had two separate, unsuccessful attempts at privitising Australian electricity and energy producers - Origin in 2023 and AGL in 2022.

NSW can achieve electricity reliability without coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... systems] BESS projects, with the 850 megawatt (MW)/1,680megawatt hour (MWh) Waratah Super Battery under construction, while AGL reached a final investment decision (FID) in December 2023 on its $750m 500MWITH 1,000MWh Liddell BESS. Origin Energy has ...

Brookfield ups the ante on Origin by $1.2bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Finance. He said that the retail and industrial climate base was key to Brookfield both in the Origin bid and in the 2022 bid for AGL led by Mike Cannon-Brookes' Grok Ventures and Brookfield Asset Management. "All of this is predicated on the value ...
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