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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 ...

Panel discussion: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... out of social science I think what's happened over the years as we've become more specialized and we've said, this is a finance field, this is an investment field, we've forgotten about the society we've become and the society we want to be." Christian ...

ARENA, CEFC back Barcaldine Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) are providing funding towards the construction of Barcaldine Regional Community Solar Farm in Queensland. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) ...

Global Investors sign Paris Green Bonds Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Initiative. "This guide can help the public sector in translating aspects of their national INDC objectives into climate finance outcomes. Adding green bonds into the climate finance mix can help the shift of capital to low carbon projects, infrastructure ...