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Climate investing declines amid Trump's anti-clean energy regime

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... in an increasingly pessimistic expectation for achieving the Paris Agreement target to limit global warming to below 2 degrees. "Many feel they have made significant commitments toward achieving net zero by 2050, but that policy frameworks have not kept ...

Young workers drive DEI in workplace: RIAA panel

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... whatever else". On the contrary, young men and women who are entering the sector are highly skilled people with engineering degrees or property management degrees. "They bring innovation and a different way of thinking," he said. "And people will not ...

Investors must take a long-term view: Robeco

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... commitments, put the brakes on green ambitions, and current government policies are on course to a temperature rise of 2.9 degrees. The recent Climate COPs have failed to deliver meaningful progress, and the sharp upsurge in trade protectionism is limiting ...

Super funds set renewables targets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... commitments to net zero by 2050. The tool - RealZero Check - applies the carbon budgets necessary to limit warming to 1.5 degrees on a sector-by-sector basis so investors can see how investments stack up against those carbon budgets. "RealZero Check ...

Indices move beyond carbon tunnel vision

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... climate solutions, and Climate Beta to track transition risk. These metrics are integrated into the indices to varying degrees. The new indices "offer investors a more nuanced approach to climate index investing, compared to carbon emissions' focused ...

Disorderly transition may spark financial meltdown

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... signatories made under the Paris Agreement, an international binding treaty to keep warming this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius - preferably under 1.5 degrees Celsius - above pre-industrial levels. Over 80 countries - around half the world's ...

Tech giant hits environment target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... ambitious climate target in line with what scientists say is necessary for global temperature increases to remain below 1.5 degrees Celsius. PUMA has focused on introducing renewable electricity at its core suppliers, using product-materials that are ...

Holdings fly in face of super duty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... 129 gigatons, which would consume around half of the remaining global carbon budget for keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees." Super funds have "no remaining excuses for failing to act".

On biodiversity, a 143-year-old museum comes to the rescue

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... "Dr Gurr said, 'If you're worried about what's going to happen with climate change, let's say at four degrees, or the travesty that will happen there, you really need to be worried about what's going to happen with biodiversity. We ...

Three innovations to fix carbon market

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... Connor says land-based sequestration must be ramped up to eight times its current level by 2050 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees. "After a turbulent few years, we are entering a critical stage in the challenge of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. ...
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