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IGCC, peers launch Investor Platform for Climate Actions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... establish a joint platform for investor action," said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. "Ahead of the UN climate change conference in Paris, cities, regions, companies and investors must continue ...

Catholic Super makes case for global climate policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Pictured from left: Nick Nuttall (moderator), head of communications and outreach and spokesperson for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); Georg Kell, executive director of the UN Global Compact; Helge Lund, CEO of Statoil; Jose Manuel ...

Forest protection CFI project issued 160,000 carbon credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... landowner's overall ranch. The CFI implements national obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and also creates financial incentives to undertake emission avoidance and sequestration offset projects ...

UCA Funds Management names fossil fuel exclusion stocks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management has identified the listed companies that it will exclude from future equities investments, based on its recently announced fossil fuel policy. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management CEO Earlier this year, UCA Fund Management announced ...

Three new CFI methodologies up for approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Three new Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) methodologies have been endorsed by the Domestic Offsets Integrity Committee (DOIC), according to the Department of the Environment. DOIC has endorsed a methodology that "reduc[es] greenhouse gas emissions in ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management has developed a fossil fuel policy that rules out future investments in thermal coal, unconventional oil such as shale and deep water drilling and in companies that extract gas through fracking. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ...

NSW leasehold approved for Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... he approached us." The CFI implements national obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and also creates financial incentives to undertake emission avoidance and sequestration offset projects ...

Natural Capital Declaration named biodiversity champion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
The Natural Capital Declaration (NCD) has been named a Biodiversity Champion by the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). CBD recognised NCD for its contribution to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. ...

HSBC calls for policies to support low-carbon financing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Smart global policy frameworks are necessary to reward financial markets to find the more than US$1 trillion per year that will be needed to decarbonise the global energy system by 2020, according to HSBC Global Research. HSBC said that in addition ...

GHG efficiency projects increase cities' finances and health

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
Cities that undertake initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are reducing costs, potentially attracting new business and economic growth and taking steps aimed at improving the health of their residents, according to a report from CDP. The CDP ...