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Investor groups call for new climate change policy responses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... (IGCC) have called upon the governments of the world's largest economies to engage in a new dialogue on climate change policy ahead of the international climate negotiations in Doha. IGCC, along with the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate ...

PRI publishes hedge fund responsible investment paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Institutional investors can analyse hedge fund managers and strategies with an eye to improving governance and values alignment in line with the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). PRI has released a discussion papers on hedge funds ...

ANZ creates hydroelectric power policy for lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
ANZ Bank has created a hydroelectric power policy so that the bank can align its lending practices with best practices regarding issues such as water quality and working with communities that might be impacted by infrastructure development. The bank ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... will be some form of compensation for the CUs they purchase, which at this stage appears unlikely under the Opposition's policy." The Ernst & Young report noted that even if the Coalition takes over the reins of government, they may not have a balance ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Limited, and head, Climate Market Investment Association for Australia, NZ, Singapore, Indonesia. "Some of the government policy - such as the clean energy package mentioned in the white paper - you have the renewable energy policy, you have [the Australian ...

Australian infrastructure underprepared for climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... in government and business are hampering the adaptation process. On the government side, the report said that government policy is fragmented, lacking a national approach to managing climate risk to major infrastructure, with policy implementation left ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... change." The report points to three main areas of climate change risks - technology impacts, physical impacts and law and policy development, and these risks require consideration of not just volatility, but future carbon regulation scenarios, new potential ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... contributed to creation of an incentive shopping culture.... You could say that the market has been distorted by this influx of policy and then a lot of change in policy which has created a whole lot of uncertainty. The carbon price journey is only one ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainable use of our natural capital." Government is beginning to consider and use discussions of natural capital in policy, such as the controversial Murray-Darling Basin Plan. "One of the key advantages of and drivers behinds this notion of natural ...

Clean Energy Council: keep Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... source 20% of Australia's energy from renewable sources by 2020. "The Renewable Energy Target is the single most important policy measure for the entire Australian renewables sector," said David Green, CEC chief executive in a statement. "Since its introduction ...