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Adamantem in exclusive talks to make Climate Friendly investment Save Share Australian private equity firm Adamantem Capital is preparing to follow global giant KKR’s lead and invest in the emerging carbon farming sector. It is understood Adamantem is in late-stage talks to acquire a stake in Climate Friendly, a Sydney-based consultancy that helps farmers, foresters and other landowners turn their properties into carbon farming businesses. Adamantem Capital founders Rob Koczkar and Anthony Kerwick have made ESG issues an important part of their firm’s investment framework.   Anth...

28 January 2021 Australia’s major emitters could soon have the opportunity to publish the details of carbon offsets they have purchased, alongside their annual greenhouse gas emissions, under a new proposal being considered by the Clean Energy Regulator. While few details about the proposed carbon offsets report are currently publicly available, it is understood that the Clean Energy Regulator will soon be launching a process of consultation on a new reporting scheme to allow corporate emitters to detail their purchases of carbon offsets. Around 420 of Australia’s largest greenhouse gas e...

Premium Content Big Oil Is Getting Serious About Carbon Capture By Irina Slav - Jan 07, 2021, 3:00 PM CST Five years ago, a handful of oil majors launched what they called the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative with the stated aim of accelerating the energy industry's response to climate change. One of the ways to do that was carbon capture, storage, and potential reuse. Now, five years later, Big Oil has little to show for it. Yet it is starting to take carbon capture seriously. In December last year, BP said it had acquired a majority stake in the largest carbon offset project develo...

6 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Oil companies such as BP and Shell are nurturing nature as a future revenue stream, betting on an expected rise in carbon credit prices as their fossil fuel profits ebb. A dense stand of small trees clear-cut approximately 10 years earlier is seen from the edge of Hersey Mountain Wilderness in New Hampton, New Hampshire, U.S., December 4, 2020. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz BP last year put $5 million into Finite Carbon, a company that connects forestry owners with companies seeking to offset their climate-warming emissions via-tree planting. The Californian firm expe...

Big carbon? Oil majors turn to nature to help plug revenue gap Dec. 13, 2020 05:10 am JST Jan. 13 | 03:02 pm JST LONDON The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. © Thomson Reuters 2020. ©2021 GPlusMedia Inc. Dec. 13, 2020 04:49 pm JST Of course there will be a disparity in the price of carbon credits. As much of the cost of each carbon-reducing project is based on labor, credits will produce far less in offsets in the developed world. The cost of plan...