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Podcast: Maintaining competitive advantage in an age of climate transparency with Duncan Paterson

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... genuinely useful and actionable information? To unpack this topic and many more, the IGCC is holding its annual Climate Finance and Investment Summit, on 7-8 November at the Sofitel, Melbourne. This unmissable event brings together leading investment ...

Industry lobbying weakens nature laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... proper oversight, risking sidelining the broader social and economic benefits of a project. On the other side, climate finance think tank InfluenceMap claims industry lobbying has influenced the government's stance on the laws to "weaken climate ambition". ...

Climate finance gets $100bn boost: ADB

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... region's climate bank. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has committed more than $100 billion in cumulative climate finance from 2019 to 2030, half of its annual financing. This comes in response to "cascading shocks" that have "derailed years of ...

Podcast: Can the market solve climate change? Climate finance with Blair Palese

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... billed as Australia's response to the US IRA - but are taxpayer dollars better spent elsewhere? Today, we discuss climate finance and the role of government in de-risking climate investing. And we ask the ultimate question: can the market solve climate ...

First dedicated transition fund for emerging markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... US$250 bn of institutional investment - by 2030, ALTÉRRA is the world's largest private investment vehicle for climate finance. The fund offers capped risk-adjusted returns for private investors with at least 10% of total capital to be contributed ...

Rockefeller org picks climate advisers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... well-being of people and planet." Yee will co-chair alongside Alok Sharma, COP26 president and Rockefeller Foundation climate finance fellow. Sharma said he is "delighted" at the nomination. "I look forward to working with eminent experts across sectors ...

One in three analyse physical climate risk: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... asset classes like private equity, which have traditionally posed a challenge. Nearly all (97%) have engaged in climate finance related policy advocacy, and there has been a drop in the number of investors citing policy uncertainty as a barrier to investment. ...

Podcast: Speaking truth to power on climate finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
On this episode, we're going to do a deeper dive into how we measure sustainable finance, and how we value the dollar impact of financing emissions-intensive activities. This is a key discussion point particularly as we look at Australia's sustainable ...

BlueScope receives funding for lower emissions project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... this." The Climate Capital Forum features a network of investors, decarbonising businesses, philanthropists and climate finance experts. "There is no time left for federal government support for anything except strategies to fully decarbonise as global ...

COP28 key outcomes: what it means for finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... climate has resulted in "imperfect" momentum on fossil fuels, renewable energy, energy efficiency, adaptation, and climate finance. While some are calling the agreement a "failure", COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber said during his closing speech: "We ...
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