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Unite the league: investors join climate coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... towards Paris-aligned emissions reductions targets. Founding partners include Aware Super, Cbus, IFM Investors and Queensland Investment Corporation, and the 20 participants are collectively responsible for over $910 billion in assets under management. ...

ARENA commits more than $100 million to clean hydrogen projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... distribution network and supply industrial customers via Tube Trailers. AGIG is also developing Hydrogen Park Gladstone in Queensland.

Coles sets net zero target with absolute emissions reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021  |  NEWS
Supermarket giant Coles has committed to reducing its carbon emissions by more than 75% by 2030 and is aiming to do so without carbon offsets. Coles recently launched its refreshed sustainability strategy, which includes its climate change pillar, named ...

ARENA to provide finance for pumped hydro facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will commit financial support for a $777 million pumped hydro plant in Queensland. ARENA has announced it has conditionally approved up to $47 million in funding to support the Genex Power's Kidston ...

Agriculture sector can contribute to climate solutions: GreenCollar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... credit market. Last year, GreenCollar announced it had secured funding for a series of carbon farming projects under the Queensland Government's $500M Land Restoration Fund (LRF). The approved projects will generate an estimated value of $9.5 million ...

Australia on global list for deforestation hotspots: WWF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia and Oceania. "Land clearing rates rocketed after the axing of restrictions in Queensland and NSW placing eastern Australia alongside the most infamous places in the world for forest destruction," said Martin Taylor ...

Green loans to finance light rail, battery storage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... announced a $120 million green loan to support the delivery of Vena Energy's $120 million Wandoan South battery project in Queensland. It is the first project financing of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in the Asia Pacific region. As battery ...

Sharp increase in food waste: Rabobank Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... bean. "Coffee fruit is a called a cherry, and it has a tart-like flavour," said Vanessa Murillo, co-founder of the Queensland-based I Am Grounded. "The seeds are used for coffee brewing after being processed...the fruit itself is a discarded by-product ...

AGL, ARENA in $8m electric vehicle charging study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... million to the trial, which involves distribution networks United Energy, Jemena, Ausnet Services, Ausgrid, Energy Queensland, Endeavour Energy, and SA Power Networks, and project partners JET Charge, Chargefox and FlexCharging. The trial will test when ...

Bank, state government become first buyers of Reef Credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... tradeable units measuring improvements to water quality flowing onto the Great Barrier Reef. HSBC Australia and the Queensland government have become the first-ever private- and public-sector buyers of Reef Credits, which quantify and value of work to ...