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Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Defense Council, the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk, the Investor Group on Climate Change and the State Treasurer of California, Bill Lockyer.

WWF: ETS repeal to reduce renewable energy, increase prices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... generators, particularly cost to customers. "For us, there are two key conclusions," said Kellie Caught, WWF-Australia climate change national manager. "Without a price on carbon pollution, what we'll see is renewable energy production shrink, which ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
The Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIICCSRTE) has released two draft bills to implement the changes required to bring forward the move to the flexible emissions trading scheme (ETS) carbon ...

Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
An increasing number of asset owners see climate change as a material risk and have maintained or strengthened their commitments to addressing climate change in investment activities, according to the results of a global survey of investment practices. ...

CDP, CDSB, IIIRC ally to promote natural capital reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... draft framework relies on the application of existing reporting standards, guidelines and approaches, such as the Climate Change Reporting Framework, which was developed by CDSB, a CDP special project. "CDP operates on the principle that capital markets ...

Mandatory GHG disclosures for British listed companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... force this week. More fundamental than reporting greenhouse gas emissions numbers is a comprehensive assessment of climate change impacts integrated into the company's strategy. CDP would like to see the legislation develop further in this direction ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Australian price to the EU price. A secondary pricing consideration will be the carbon emissions budget to be set by the Climate Change Authority (CCA). The CCA will release an issues paper on Australian emissions targets and budgets, and will assemble ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... institutional investors to divest from fossil fuel-based assets as a way of protecting against the downside risk of climate change as well as the potential return of renewable energy investments. Impax used the MSCI World Index as the baseline and then ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Greenfleet said that they are "keen" to demonstrate that biodiverse Australian forests are one way to mitigate climate change, and that registering projects through the CFI is a mechanism to demonstrate the carbon capture that can come from plantings. ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... of new climate-themed bonds up 25% in 2012, according to a report by the Climate Bonds Initiative and the HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence. Sean Kidney The report, Bonds and Climate Change, found that new issuance of climate-themed bonds was ...