ACCU, NZU futures trade subdued on bourse debut

Published 10:36 on July 29, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:36 on July 29, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand

The first day of trade for Australian and New Zealand futures contracts on the ASX closed quietly with 1,000 units traded, but prices not given.

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Indonesian coal mine emissions vastly underreported, report says

Published 02:00 on July 29, 2024  /  Last updated at 01:30 on July 29, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific

Indonesian coal mine emissions are being underreported, with fewer than half of its major miners reporting the methane emissions that occur as part of the mining process, according to a report released Monday.

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Indonesia plans to stage carbon tax in two phases, webinar hears

Published 11:30 on July 24, 2024  /  Last updated at 11:30 on July 24, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Carbon Taxes, Other APAC

Indonesia plans a two-stage carbon tax even as its domestic carbon credit market remains illiquid and sparsely traded, a webinar heard this week according to local media.

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Australian soil carbon developer announces pivot as it girds for board fight at AGM

Published 10:53 on July 24, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:53 on July 24, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Australia, Bavardage, Voluntary

An Australian soil carbon developer has finalised the date of its annual general meeting where it will ask shareholders to vote on removal of a director a day after it outlined a strategy to partner on soil carbon rather than go solo, and gave a firm date for the startup of its Philippines operations.

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Australia spends on new tech to reduce ‘hard-to-abate’ emissions, cement the winner

Published 10:30 on July 23, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:30 on July 23, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Australia

Australia on Tuesday announced A$65 million ($43 mln) in new spending on seven projects to support smaller, more nascent carbon capture, storage, and utilisation projects across the nation, with a focus on technologies to reduce emissions from the cement manufacturing process.

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Study finds close balancing act for carbon storage in world’s forests

Published 10:47 on July 22, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:47 on July 22, 2024  / /  Americas, Asia Pacific, China, EMEA, International, Nature-based, Voluntary

The world’s forests have been finely balancing carbon sequestration for the past three decades as the ability of some forests to store the greenhouse gas has dropped while others expanded, a global study of 30 years of data to 2019 found.

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Miners want coal to make steel, money men think otherwise -report

Published 12:57 on July 19, 2024  /  Last updated at 12:02 on July 22, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Australia, International

Investors believe steel can be made cleanly and are willing to spend on it, whilst also being increasingly sceptical about the long-term financial viability of the metallurgical coal used to make the vast majority of steel, an Australian activist investor group said Friday in a report based on a survey of 500 respondents from 34 nations with cumulative billions of dollars under management.

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Australia’s Fortescue abandons hydrogen target, pivots to clean electricity

Published 13:52 on July 17, 2024  /  Last updated at 14:11 on July 17, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Australia

One of Australia’s most ambitious hydrogen developers has all but abandoned its plans for the green fuel, it said Wednesday, which the firm had once suggested could rival the scale of Saudi Aramco’s oil output.

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Australia eyes 2025 start for Guarantee of Origin scheme

Published 10:33 on July 16, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:33 on July 16, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Australia

Australia is seeking to put legislation in place in time for a late 2025 start for its Guarantee of Origin (GO) scheme, the government said Tuesday.

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Fossil fuel funding falling from Australian banks, but not fast enough -report

Published 00:25 on July 16, 2024  /  Last updated at 00:25 on July 16, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Australia, International

Australia’s banks are still funding fossil fuel projects and their developers at a rate inconsistent with Paris climate targets and their own net zero timelines, a report released Tuesday by activist shareholder group Market Forces said.

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