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Australia seeks to win climate pact approval

CANBERRA / WAM Australia’s government expects to win approval for a flagship climate policy to rein in the country’s worst polluters after agreeing to rules that could curb development of new fossil fuel projects, Bloomberg reported. The country’s revised safeguard mechanism, which would compel around 215 of the nation’s most emitting industrial sites to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about ...

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Eskom pushes for lender consent on transmission spin off

BLOOMBERG Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd said it will request that one of the key remaining conditions to separate its transmission unit is concluded within the next month, a step that would mark progress towards transforming the business and opening the grid up to private producers. Spinning off the business to become the National Transmission Co South Africa still requires licenses ...

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UK pushes for ‘step change’ in green financing to reach net zero

BLOOMBERG The UK published a revised version of its green finance strategy, laying out plans to track investment flows and boost transition finance as it seeks to become the world’s first net-zero aligned financial center. In the long-awaited update to a 2019 strategy, the UK said it will publish a series of net-zero roadmaps this year that outline funding needs ...

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