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CEFC launches $250m Community Housing Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has launched an AU$250 million Community Housing Program to drive construction of energy-efficient community housing. The Community Housing Program is expected to contribute to the construction of as many ...

Senate inquiry to examine carbon risk disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... Disclosure, which will report by 22 June. The inquiry is an opportunity for public discussion of how climate change will affect finance and economic policy as well as behaviours across the economy. The vote was welcomed by investment, environment and ...

Global Canopy Programme appoints executive director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... their progress, identifying and pressuring the laggards still turning a blind eye, and helping to increase the flow of finance necessary to accelerate the transition to a deforestation-free global economy." The Global Canopy Project is a tropical forest ...

Melbourne buildings retrofit with solar panels

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... financing from the Sustainable Melbourne Fund was funded by SMF's new strata loan product, which provides 100% project finance for energy efficiency and solar energy projects to strata buildings, both residential and commercial, SMF said. The financing ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... single place for sustainability - there is a diversity of ways in which companies place sustainability," Black said. "Finance will be important, the chief legal counsel will be important, and also we're going to see more and more involvement of sustainability ...

HESTA allocates $6.7m to affordable housing development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... Housing, a community housing provider in Queensland. This investment will see the Trust partner with Horizon Housing to "finance the purchase of management rights for 995 existing affordable housing properties and the future development of up to 60 new ...

ARENA selects 22 projects for $100m funding round

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... the sector with insight about cost and generation parameters. A number of the 22 short-listed projects are also seeking finance from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) under its $250 million large-scale solar program. "We expect these large-scale ...

CEFC receives new investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) begins 2016 with a new investment mandate that will bring a new focus on "emerging and innovative clean energy technologies, energy efficiency and the built environment" to the AU$10 billion fund. The investment ...

ARENA allocates funds for biomass research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... Institute (FETI) at Curtin University. Professor Chun-Zhu Li is the director at FETI. Separately, last year the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) committed AU$100 million to a new Australian Bioenergy Fund, which will aim to accelerate development ...

Altius Sustainable Bond Fund certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Simon O'Connor, chief executive officer of RIAA. "The responsible investment sector constitutes a growing force in the finance and capital markets of Australasia. More than half of the major superannuation funds and nine of the top 10 fund managers have ...