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PE left 3bn tonnes of emissions: Emmi

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... Citing McKinsey data, global private equity investments reached $8.2 trillion in 2023. "That year, industrial carbon emissions were 37.2 billion tonnes. Assuming PE is roughly 8% of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (~$105 trillion), then the sector's ...

CEFC gives $160m to sustainable real estate credit projects

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... net zero emissions." Currently, the built environment is responsible for about 40% of the 50 billion tonnes of carbon emissions released globally each year. About 22% of that comes from embodied carbon. Commenting, Goldman Sachs Alternatives chief investment ...

EV boom fuels lithium surge, but risks are significant

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... zero-carbon lithium project in Germany leverages geothermal power and water recycling technologies to minimise both carbon emissions and water usage. VezĂ©r's comments were made at the recent Responsible Investment Association of Australasia event, the ...

Climate transition poses GFC-level risk: Emmi

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... interested in data on fixed income, the bond market, and private equity. "There's a notion that understanding the carbon emissions are all that's needed," McNeil said. "That's only the first step. The most important question is: how is climate change ...

Regulation drives ESG advice boom

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... mandatory sustainability disclosure laws. The first tranche of large corporates and financial firms must report their carbon emissions starting this year, with progressively smaller entities to follow over the next two years. Entities with a consolidated ...

Young investors' appetite for ESG investing dwindles: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... 33% of young investors said they'd be willing to lose more than 10% of their retirement savings to improve carbon emissions and develop renewable energy technologies - by 2024, just 10% said the same. Meantime, Cerulli's research found 44% of ...

ESG linked to pay in top APAC listed firms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... metrics in APAC are social (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 ...

Subscription EVs attract HESTA, IFM interest

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... energy transition objectives. Splend's fleet of electric vehicles in Australia and the UK are already reducing carbon emissions by over 19,000tCO2e per annum." For HESTA's part, chief investment officer Sonya Sawtell-Rickson said the investment ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... are the biggest drivers of deforestation, resulting in soil fertility decline, water stress, and exponential carbon emissions through destruction of carbon sinks. Brazil accounted for the most biodiversity impacted land for food products sub-issuers ...

Climate ETF smashes global record

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... North American companies from the MSCI ACWI Select Climate 500 Index. It targets themes like greenhouse gas and carbon emissions reductions. As for many other ESG funds, it's tech-heavy, with top holdings in the Big Five tech firms. Varma head of listed ...
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