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Australia joins COP28 gender and just transition partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... data to support decision making in transition planning, more effective finance flows to regions most impacted by climate change, and education, skills and capacity building to support individual engagement in transitions. The commitments will be reviewed ...

New advisory body for nature investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... established a new advisory body to align private finance and investment with nature positive outcomes. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water this week announced the establishment of the Nature Finance Council to increase ...

How to spot a credible transition plan: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Scope 1 and 2 in line with the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Race to Zero. Meanwhile, the UK is considering making transition disclosure mandatory for larger British companies and has ...

COP28 day one recap: US$429m loss and damage fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... day of COP28 culminated in a landmark deal to help the most vulnerable emerging economies pay for the impacts of climate change. The initial funding is close to US$429m. Host nation the United Arab Emirates and Germany both pledged US$100 million. EU ...

New code of practice guidance for voluntary carbon markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... forming in voluntary markets." Patricia Espinosa, former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change commented that while VCMs should be used in addition to internal decarbonisation methods, the voluntary carbon market enables ...

UN-informed tool to assess SDG progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... introduced physical risk indicators that cover all climate scenarios endorsed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The new tool provides Bloomberg users with a new to assess exposure to climate vulnerabilities including floods, fires ...

Carbon credit review falls short on CO2 capture and slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... the recommendations won't address modern slavery risk and direct air capture and storage inefficiencies. The Climate Change Authority's (CCA) review of the ACCU scheme comes amid a storm of controversies around the future of carbon credit programs ...

Rest invests $1b in Quinbrook green data centres

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... strong long-term financial returns by supporting the necessary infrastructure for the future economy, Lill said. "Climate change mitigation, the energy transition and the road to net zero are creating some great investment opportunities for our members. ...

Loss and damage funds a key consideration for COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... business and investor commitments are all topics of interest at the forthcoming COP28. The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), more commonly referred to ...

Capacity Investment Scheme expansion to jolt renewable energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Investors support the federal government's announcement of an expansion to the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) to 32 GW of renewable energy - up from 9 GW - to enable the federal renewable energy target of 82% by 2030. Federal Climate and Energy ...