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Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... independent company established in 2010 by the Australian government. LCAL manages an AU$84.6m investment fund which provides finance to improve energy efficiency and achieve carbon abatement in the property and industry sectors. McDonald talks to The ...

Cbus CEO David Atkin re-elected to PRI Advisory Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... representatives - investment managers and professional service partners -, a representative each from the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact, and an appointed chair. There are representatives from each geographic region ...

Foresters finances Eating Disorders Victoria service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Foresters Community Finance has financed an expanded counseling service for Eating Disorders Victoria (EDV) through its Social Enterprise Solutions program. The loan will provide funds for EDV to provide community-based early intervention and ongoing ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... transformational change is happening, there's an alternative modus operandi, and there is a business case for that. It's a finance first case, not an extreme green case, and we think if you pursue that investment case, you will do better not just in ...

NAB funds second Environmental Upgrade Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Solutions," said Sam Suleman, building owner. EUAs are agreements between a building owner, local council and financier to finance environmental retrofitting projects. Under the terms, the building owner is advanced funds for the upgrade by the financier ...

ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... "Across the bank we have worked hard to improve our performance through initiatives such as our target to increase the finance we provide to the renewables sector or through the work we've done to improve financial literacy in underserved communities ...

Clean Energy Council: keep Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... submission to the Climate Change Authority, CEC also said that the RET should not be impacted by the launch of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). "The objectives of the CEFC are to accelerate the deployment of emerging clean energy technologies," ...

Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power offer biogas services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... rendering plant at Beaudesert in Queensland." For its part, Low Carbon Australia will be able to assist with providing finance for qualifying projects. "Low Carbon Australia is able to work with Quantum Power and its clients to enable these biogas projects ...

CEFC Chair Jillian Broadbent to quit as member of ASX board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) Chair Jillian Broadbent will retire from the board of the ASX as of the company's 5 October annual general meeting (AGM). Broadbent is leaving the ASX board to focus on her new role at the CEFC, ASX said in an ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... the so-called Walmart effect in greening local and subregional supply chains." Van der Lugt noted that the International Finance Corporation now expects project developers, and banks who finance them, to apply no net loss approaches to biodiversity impact. ...