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Podcast: Banking on the future with Australia's green bank

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... each dollar of CEFC capital attracts just over five dollars of additional private capital to projects. CEFC Executive director Richard Lovell joins us for this conversation to talk about the past decade and the future of green investment in Australia. ...

VC initiative to catalyse AgTech for climate solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... improving drought resilience as the first step to then finding and funding products and services, said Beanstalk AgTech director Cal Archibald. "We are working with industry, drought hubs, companies and farmers to get clarity on what the big challenges ...

Investors "flying blind" to climate litigation risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... catastrophic climate change [and its] impact on their ability to carry out their duty to beneficiaries," Duncan Paterson, director of investor practice at the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), told FS Sustainability. Over 70% of reviewed companies ...

Treasury publishes climate disclosure legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... regulators, with remedies limited to "injunctions and declarations." Australian Institute of Company Directors managing director and CEO Mark Rigotti said investors are "searching for higher quality and more fulsome climate disclosures and directors ...

Paris overshoot: are investors prepared?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... production of fossil fuels. This diversity complicates the assessment of potential risk in investment. Duncan Paterson, director of investor practice at the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), warns that the current trajectory suggests "chilling ...

Carbon markets heat up

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
The beginning of 2024 has seen a maturing carbon market attracting greater attention from stakeholders across various sectors, indicating a surge in demand in both voluntary and compliance markets. Xpansiv invests in Evident US energy market infrastructure ...

Growing scope for investing in natural capital: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... also provides embedded carbon reduction within their strategies and oftentimes a positive carbon capture," said bfinance director of Australia and New Zealand Sebastian Mays. "Interest in exploring strategies that have a positive impact on the net carbon ...

ASX tapped to develop Aussie carbon exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... compliance measures and meet both regulated and voluntary emissions targets over the coming years," said ASX managing director and CEO Helen Lofthouse. "ASX is supportive of efforts to decarbonise the Australian economy and we are excited to be undertaking ...

Forestry fund raises $450m for natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... viable to generate additional future revenue through Australian Credit Carbon Units (ACCUs). David Shelton, managing director, Australia and New Zealand at New Forests commented: "Since New Forests launched its first fund 13 years ago, the market is ...

Built industry bodies call for green innovation policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... policies to accelerate the development of high-performing and sustainable new buildings. Property Council ACT executive director Shane Martin pointed to the ACT government plan for electrifying homes and buildings in the territory, but said there are ...