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Date Time Share Climate Action Plan progress report shows mining industry is investing in innovative solutions to cut emissions Australia’s minerals sector is playing its part in addressing climate change, with the first progress report on the MCA’s Climate Action Plan showing the industry has hit the ground running with emissions reductions in Year 1 and significant annual emissions reductions potential of 30 per cent through initiatives underway. The progress report details the status of...

Date Time Statement following visit of COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma to Viet Nam COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma visited Hanoi from 28-29 May 2021. During his visit, he met Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha, Viet Nam’s Chief Negotiator for climate change, and Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien. Following an open and constructive exchange of views on climate change including adaptation, mitigation, climate fina...

Date Time Port of Newcastle deal – Key Facts In May 2021, NAB announced its role in the development of a loan for Port of Newcastle. This loan aligned financing for Australia’s largest east coast seaport with long-term environmentally and socially responsible outcomes. As Sustainable Finance Structuring Coordinator, NAB assisted in the development of both a sustainability-linked financing framework and green financing framework with Port of Newcastle. This transaction has been widely report...

Date Time AgForce questions Australia Institute’s credibility on climate How can an organisation with a name as noble sounding as the ‘Australia Institute’ get it so wrong? Last week, the self-proclaimed “think tank” released a report on climate: Banking on Australia’s Emissions: Why creative accounting will not get us to net zero emissions and included two graphs that clearly show land sector emissions reducing, and sheep, cattle, and total agriculture emissions reducing, yet follo...

Montréal, 1 June 2021 - Speaking at the 2021 P4G Summit, a leading global acceleration event for market-based partnerships in developing countries,...

Monash University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global energy company ENGIE. The two organisations will explore opportunities to...

New Delhi: Greenply Industries Limited, India’s largest interior eco-friendly infrastructure company with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing a comprehensive range of plywood, block boards, decorative veneers, flush doors, and other allied p

Pollution from manufacturing is now widespread, affecting all regions in the world, with serious ecological, economic, and political consequences....

Speaking in a key international partnerships summit, António Guterres said that if governments embrace together the goals of phasing out coal, enhancing...

Chalmers University of Technology If a ban were introduced on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a great reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. That is the finding of new research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, looking at emissions from the entire life cycle – from manufacture of electric cars and batteries, to electricity used for operation. However, the total effect of a phasing out of fossil-fuelled cars wil...