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Climate Bond Standard releases draft bioenergy criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
The Climate Bond Standard has released draft criteria for bioenergy projects to qualify for certification. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative chair The Climate Bond Standard's Bioenergy Technical Working Group has developed the proposed eligibility ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
The payday lending and goods rental/leasing sector is a fast-growing part of the financial services sector, but there are social and financial risks to the sector. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney Recently, Credit Suisse's Asia Pacific/Australia ...

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
There is a high degree of overlap in what organisational reporters using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework consider material, and what investors consider material, according to an analysis conducted by GRI and RobecoSAM. In the report ...

ARENA funds AU$5.2m for Renergi biofuel project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has provided AU$5.2 million in funding to Renergi for a pilot scale biofuel project. Professor Chun-Zhu Li, director, FETI, explaining Renergi gasification technology (photo courtesy ARENA) The pilot is ...

Carnegie Wave Energy launches Perth Wave Energy Project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
Carnegie Wave Energy has switched on its first onshore power station, the Perth Wave Energy Project. Carnegie installed the first CETO 5 unit- known as the Perth Project - for the Department of Defence at Garden Island in Western Australia last year. ...

Westpac commits to recruiting 400 Indigenous university interns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... degrees and education areas, and they can step into a wide range of roles in the bank," Toohill said. "It could be an IT tech role, a legal role, it could also could be in a core financial/banking role. We see interns from all different degree programs ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
Supply chains in Brazil, China, India and the United States are more vulnerable to climate change than those in Europe and Japan because of lack of preparation, according to CDP. CDP analysed suppliers from 11 countries in relation to their climate ...

GRI creates two leadership groups for future discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is forming two corporate leadership groups - one to further the international discussion on the purpose of sustainability reporting, and a second on the role of integrated reporting. The GRI has established the ...

Bondor, QUT partner on sustainable building material project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will partner with Bondor, a producer of insulated roof and wall panels and lightweight decorative architectural facade panels, to measure how the company's thermal building system satisfies residents' cost savings ...

CEFC finances $20m in business energy improvements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Commonwealth Bank have financed AU$20 million in energy productivity projects for business via the Energy Efficient Loan program. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO The Energy Efficient ...