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Rest backs $300m solar farm and battery project

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... powering towards a low emissions future." To mark the occasion, Octopus Australia hosted a Sod Turning event at the site on Wednesday, attended by the Minister for Energy and Resources Lily D'Amborsio along with key project stakeholders.

More work needed on climate risk response

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... implement best practice for climate risk management. APRA's second climate risk self-assessment survey, released on Wednesday, finds there are broad variations and a need for greater convergence. The survey assessed management of risks associated with ...

Directors welcome new climate reporting regime

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... mandatory climate reporting requirements for major companies. The rules were supposed to come into effect July 1 - but on Wednesday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced that large entities will now have until January 2025, and smaller business will follow ...

Key sector could boost economy by $100 billion

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) professor Sharath Sriram made the case at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday. STA represents more than 225,000 Australian professionals. As a percentage of GDP, the nation's research and development ...

Climate group exodus unlikely to hinder climate action: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... media and that more firms are joining than are leaving. This comes as the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday voted 3-2 in favour of climate disclosure, excluding Scope 3 emissions, in an outcome labelled as "bare minimum". JP Morgan ...

No pause button on greenwashing action: ASIC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... Australia. "Greenwashing is a corrosive agent to carbon abatement," Chester said at the RIAA Conference in Melbourne on Wednesday. FS Sustainability is the official media partner to the event. According to Bloomberg, ESG assets are projected to exceed ...

Noted Aboriginal academic calls on business to back Voice

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... October and December 2023. In a discussion held at the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) conference on Wednesday, professor Marcia Lynne Langton outlined the disadvantages and prejudices that First Nations Peoples' face in Australia ...

New report finds global carbon markets hit new record amid energy crisis

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... 2023 International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP)'s Emissions Trading Worldwide Status Report. The report released Wednesday found that carbon markets have remained largely unaffected by energy cost surges sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine ...

RBA deputy governor to join Fortescue Future Industries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... Australia has resigned and will join Fortescue Future Industries. Guy Debelle has announced his resignation, effective Wednesday, 16 March. Debelle will be taking up the position of chief financial officer of Fortescue Future Industries in June. "I am ...

Investors decry decision by United States president to withdraw from Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... issues through the investment process and through actions with other key stakeholders. Such actions were exemplified on Wednesday when investors forced through a motion on climate change at ExxonMobil, getting 62% of the vote."
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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

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