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CEFC invests $536 million across 39 projects in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... investments of Low Carbon Australia. The fund's mandate is to provide financing to renewable energy, energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was funded with AU$10bn and announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private ...

IGCC welcomes CCA draft report on emissions targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... of the Climate Change Authority (CCA) draft report, but says it raises questions of how Australia will achieve higher emissions reductions. In its draft report into caps and targets, the CCA did not make a final recommendation on a 2020 emissions reduction ...

City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... getting this as anew form of debt. We're working really hard right now and having a having a huge series of Zero Net Emissions roundtables where we identify the relatively large energy users that would qualify for an EUA like big strata developers and ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... company's] reserve exposure to the risks associated with current and probable future policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050," according to the template letter to oil and gas companies. "We would also like to understand what options ...

CBA questioned over carbon emissions calculations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has reported that it has achieved and exceeded its target to reduce carbon emissions by the end of the 2012/2013 financial year, but it included in its calculations of its reductions a re-allocation of 3,500 tonnes ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative CEO. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds CEO "The latest science shows that carbon emissions in industrialized countries will need to drop by at least 90% by 2050 in order to avoid severe climate change." Kidney said. ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... year in full. This means that, on 15 June 2014, they will need to surrender carbon units to cover their interim 2013/14 emissions liability and, on 1 February 2015, they will need to surrender carbon units to cover their final 2013/14 emissions liability." ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... on his credentials as both a climate advocate - he was a member of the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading from 1998-2000 - and because of his experience in energy resources, infrastructure and international business. Ethinvest ...

MSCI launches MSCI ESG DataMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... features 174 metrics on eight cross-industry ESG issues for all companies on the MSCI World Index, including carbon emissions, water stress, labour management, and corporate governance. There is four years of raw data, including water use and lost-time ...

Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Northern Trust has developed an emerging markets fund made up of companies that have both lower carbon emissions and less fossil fuel reserves. The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) will invest in the Northern Trust Emerging Markets Custom ...