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As Europe and the US move ahead with funding for hydrogen projects, Australia’s ambitions are under threat

There’s a new ROC on the block, and it’s called ESG rate-of-change investing, and Morgan Stanley has singled it out as the next big thing as global equities prepare for an impending ESG-induced capital crunch

The Australian government’s renegotiated Safeguard Mechanism as a means to emissions reduction will not impact severely on the country’s oil & gas industry

Macro concerns overshadowed ESG developments during the February reporting season, but there was plenty to report: decarbonisation continued apace; green commodities entered rocky water but other revenue-generating projects progressed; and regulators took aim

Ahead of the Herd’s Rick Mills reports the shift to a world powered by renewable energy and run on electric vehicles may have its critics, but there’s no arguing with the numbers

FNArena scans broker research, academic forecasts, and ratings agencies’ views to glean our top ESG trends for 2023 – and we start with the most impactful of them all

World leaders met in Egypt to formalise the first steps in progressing the biodiversity agenda, resulting in big subsidy cuts to “harmful” industries and activities, and an imperative for investors to start revising their strategies

COP27 has called for a transformation of the financial system, and Australia’s major banks find themselves in the middle of it all

It’s big – really big – so FNArena takes a deep dive into the global markets for green hydrogen, ammonia and fuel cells; checks out the fuel’s role as an energy security play; and outlines the global developments and incentives making it immediately cost competitive

As green hydrogen hits a tipping point, investors are turning their focus to the broader clean hydrogen prospect, and this article examines the nuts and bolts of the hydrogen market and its related technologies