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HSBC adds 20 years to net zero ambitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... wider shake-up of its ESG ambitions. The global bank announced last week that while it made good progress in reducing its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions and is on track to deliver reductions of more than 90% by 2030 compared to the 2019 baseline, reducing ...

SBTi seeks feedback on Corporate Net Zero Standard

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... standards and frameworks including the upcoming Financial Institutions Net Zero Standard. The expert working group will discuss Scope 2 and 3 emissions, neutralisation and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Beyond Value Chain Mitigation (BVCM) activities ...

Activist investors set sights on paid parental leave

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The activist shareholder group Sustainable Investment Exchange (SIX) has set its scope on large, listed firms that fail to provide paid parental leave. They are targeting childcare provider G8 Education, which employs over 10,000 staff. G8 is an outlier ...

Looming climate audits expose talent crunch

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... timelines for reasonable assurance over the transitional period. Entities will start with limited assurance, focusing on Scope 1 and 2 emissions and more complex areas like scenario analysis being slowly phased in over several years, giving companies ...

ESG linked to pay in top APAC listed firms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... (62%), diversity and inclusion (59%), and environmental (42%). Just 30% used GHG or carbon emissions measures including Scope 3 emissions. Climate-linked pay largely fails to achieve results, a study last year from the Investor Group on Climate Change ...

QIC Real Estate secures $3.75bn SLL

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... "tackle challenging sustainability issues, not only within its own operations, but also its value chain, through inclusion of scope 3 and CAF related targets." QIC Real Estate is part of the A$111bn QIC and manages a A$13.6bn property portfolio on behalf ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... investment for Future Fund. The fund has had a climate focus for some time, having been committed to achieving net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2030, in alignment with the government's target. That said, it maintains investments in the likes ...

Global corporate emissions fall for first time

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... regulators in assessing climate risk. To bridge this gap, Emmi applied a 'Meta-Model' machine learning technique to estimate Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions where data is lacking. This "new more robust approach" can be applied to "virtually any company in ...

Podcast: Environmental impact of artificial intelligence with Prabhakar Srinivasan

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... the datacentres used in AI churns through energy and leaving behind a hefty carbon footprint, especially when we consider scope 3 emissions. Today, we're thrilled to welcome Prabakar Shrinivasan, Director and Co-Lead of Artificial Intelligence at ...

Green moves at MSCI, Future Fund, Minderoo, U Ethical

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... passionate advocate for sustainable investing. "The early days at Trucost saw us figuring out how to do the world's first Scope 3 supply chain and financed emissions calculations, delivering groundbreaking research such as the environmental P&L concept... ...
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