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Climate Change Authority releases ACCU and NGERS reviews

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Energy Reporting (NGER) Scheme and the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011. The Climate Change Authority (CCA) is required to review the CFI Act every three years and the NGER Scheme every five years. The Department of Climate Change ...

Carbon credit review falls short on CO2 capture and slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... won't address modern slavery risk and direct air capture and storage inefficiencies. The Climate Change Authority's (CCA) review of the ACCU scheme comes amid a storm of controversies around the future of carbon credit programs, the limitations ...

Australian sustainable finance taxonomy to feature traffic-light system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Australia's future taxonomy defining sustainable financial activity should adopt a traffic-light colour coded framework to allow financial products to be distinguished based on their alignment to sustainable activities. That is one of the recommendations ...

Seeking action at "implementation" COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
The COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh has been labelled an implementation COP, where governments, investors and other actors are called upon to demonstrate how they're going to implement what was promised a year ago in Glasgow at COP26. However, others have ...

Government launches review of Safeguard Mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... alongside the important Chubb Review into Australia's carbon crediting framework. Recently, the Climate Change Authority (CCA) called Australia's carbon market "fragmented, inefficient and complicated." The CCA has released its Review of International ...

Fixing Australia's complicated carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
Australia's carbon market is "fragmented, inefficient and complicated," according to the Climate Change Authority (CCA). The CCA has released its Review of International Offsets, which finds that the international carbon market is still evolving. ...

Draft Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
Sustainability reporting experts and climate specialists welcomed the release of the draft Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) but said more needs to be done on the language and metrics. The TNFD beta framework tackles the risk ...

2021 theme in review: biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
Sitting in the liminal space between the old and the new year, it is a time to reflect on these issues and consolidate recent news into a narrative. One of these mega-issues is biodiversity. Without a doubt, climate change, its impacts and the transition ...

COP26 week one: what Australians need to know

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
The first week of COP26's headlines has been dominated by world leaders' speeches and their commitments. In addition to the political rhetoric - which has been welcomed with varying degrees of satisfaction - there have also been a number of ...

Fiji, Australia sign Indo-Pacific Carbon Offsets Scheme deal at COP26

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
Fiji will become the first international partner to join Australia's recently established Indo-Pacific Carbon Offsets Scheme. The scheme was announced in April and is modelled on Australia's Emissions Reduction Fund. Its aim is to develop a high-integrity ...
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