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Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... interesting opportunities for the forestry industry." For Investa, a leading office building owner and manager and residential and industrial real estate developer, managing energy, gas, water and carbon dioxide emissions because of their outsized impact ...

City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... information from Cr Arron Wood The City of Melbourne and the Sustainable Melbourne Fund are reaching out to advise non-residential commercial building owners of financing options for cost-effective solar installation. Scott Bocskay Recently, the City ...

Nippon Gas buys stake in COzero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... power station closures, Japan has been suffering from electricity shortages and increased energy and gas prices for residential and commercial customers. These factors have created a need for Japanese consumers to mitigate energy usage, and Nippon Gas ...

Beyond Zero Emissions proposes model for retrofitting houses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Australian residential and commercial property could reach zero carbon emissions standards in 10 years with sufficient retrofitting to reduce energy consumption, according to Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE), a not-for-profit research and education organisation. ...

CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Queensland. The overseas experience cited in the paper builds the CEFC's case that demand management can reduce business and residential electricity bills through "lower customer energy consumption, via improving end use energy efficiency, lower wholesale ...

Fund managers assess retailers' risks in Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... from Bangladesh are particularly exposed because they have moved in later. "[Factories like Rana Plaza] are often in residential buildings that have been converted into factories," said Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, senior ESG research analyst at AMP Capital. ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and upgrades of existing commercial properties, while this is a new development, and a development that is building residential units as well as commercial and retail space. "This particular deal is different in that you don't have a building with long-term ...

GRESB hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Commonwealth Property Office Fund, the GPT Group, considered retail for the purposes of the survey, Stockland for residential, Australian Prime Property Fund Industrial, managed by Lend Lease, as the industrial sector leader, and GFSGAM's Commonwealth ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Warrnambool lighting project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... larger AU$3 million Great South Coast Street Smart Lighting project. Warrnambool will install about 2200 lights in residential streets over the next couple of years as part of a broader initiative to replace more than 7,600 mercury street lights with ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... network's future needs. Most of the electricity sub-stations across the country were built a number of years ago, residential and businesses estates have of course grown and the infrastructure needs to be upgraded. To provide reliable power supply, network ...