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Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and two other global investor groups are calling on companies to minimise methane emissions from gas and oil production through hydraulic fracturing. IGCC, the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... performance targets an indicators at 64% and cleaner/safer production at 63% "The only significant decline was observed for emissions trading/CDM projects, which has fallen 14% for the largest companies in the past two years," the report said. "A minority ...

Clean Energy Regulator and ASIC to work together

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Carbon Farming Initiative and the renewable energy target. CER will also provide for the Australian national Registry of Emissions Units. Any of the emissions units created as a result of the legislation and mechanisms are considered financial products ...

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... FB Rice has achieved an overall reduction of 9% in power since 2007/2008, which equates to a 9% reduction in carbon emissions from electricity consumption. FB Rice achieved this through measures like switching from halogen down-lights to LEDs, reducing ...

Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... legislation. For the first three years from July, the carbon price mechanism will be a fixed price of AU$23/tonne of carbon emissions. From July 2015, the system will transfer to a cap and trade market based system with a "collar" - a floor price for ...

AusLSA to provide access to environmental measurement tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... than using static spreadsheets the online portal is live and will be regularly upgraded to new versions and up to date emissions factors. Being online, it will also allow more than one person to input data which will be particularly useful for multi-site ...

Plantic opens expanded bioplastics facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... KwH of energy, the equivalent of powering over 2000 Australian homes," Morris said. "It will also cut greenhouse gas emissions by five thousand tonnes, which is equal to planting more than 750,000 trees." This week, Greg Combet, Minister for Industry ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... carrying out those pledges in intervening years. In that context, Australia's move to put an explicit price on carbon emissions and set a renewable energy target puts the country in line with international counterparts. Hueston noted that countries are ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... quarter, SAP employed 18.8% women in management, an increase of 0.9% over the March 2011 quarter. SAP's greenhouse gas emissions for the first quarter of 2012 were 145 kilotons, a 22% increase compared to the first quarter of 2011. SAP attributes this ...

Low Carbon Australia certifies water recycling plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Recycled Water Plant in Melton, north-west of Melbourne. The Melton plant's biogas cogeneration facility uses methane emissions generated from the water recycling process to power the Class A Recycled Water Plant's operations, said Meg McDonald, Low ...