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Japan issues first climate transition bond

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... development initiatives in areas including renewable energy and hydrogen utilisation in steelmaking. 44.5% is earmarked for subsidies, for activities including electricity storage batteries manufacturing and energy-efficient buildings. The GX plan encourages ...

COP28: "Weak" Global Stocktake slammed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... infrastructure for zero and low emissions vehicles to reduce transport emissions Phase out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption and do not address energy poverty or just transitions, as soon as possible." The stocktake ...

Finance realignment urged as nature-positive trails 30:1

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... degradation targets by 2030. While governments provide the most funding for nature-based solutions (at 82%), public finance subsidies that harm nature have increased 55% to US$1.7 trillion in the past year, despite many countries committing to reduce ...

COP28: Australia commits $150m to Pacific resilience

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... demonstrate real climate action, and this extends to the call to phasing out fossil fuels, and domestic fossil fuel subsidies." Oxfam Australia climate justice strategic lead Melissa Bungcaras commented: "Australia has an opportunity to step up its global ...

Sustainable AUM tops US$30 trn despite tighter labels

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... data for investors. Further policy recommendations include public support for capital market environments which align subsidies, market incentives, and government structures to ensure transformative public and private investment flows. The GSIR also ...

Loss and damage funds a key consideration for COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... means for global ambitions. Halpern of JANA noted that she will be keeping an eye out on discussions of eliminating tax subsidies for fossil fuel producers. "There is also a focus on what's going to happen with the phase down of fossil fuels," Halpern ...

IGCC calls on government to boost Aussie green industry

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... California to South Korea, and apply those lessons here. "Australia can't and should not attempt to match the scale of clean subsidies emerging globally. The nation can't outspend the USA and others but we can outsmart them and use our unique resources ...

Investors call for 75% emissions reduction by 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... and Parliament on key policy matters, and enshrine climate risk management in government," phasing out all fossil fuel subsidies by 2025, and phasing in a mandatory climate risk disclosure regime that is aligned to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial ...

APPEA conference kicks up controversy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... and globally. APPEA boasted to its members about its successful campaign for a 'gas-fired recovery', and the flood of subsidies to the industry that came with it." According to ACCR analysis, as of May 2021 the government had committed nearly $2 billion ...

Investors seek renewable energy infrastructure: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... private markets at bfinance. "The economics of this asset class are fundamentally changing with the overall withdrawal of subsidies and the development of the technologies. With more competition than ever, both from a fundraising perspective and an investment ...
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