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Australian exposed to carbon bubble through coal resources

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... global carbon budget for coal that is necessary to achieve internationally agreed targets of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Centigrade. The report assesses the risk to coal resources based on the idea of "unburnable carbon" - a concept that only ...

GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Jones Lang LaSalle in the Netherlands, focused on identifying sustainability best of real estate assets. He holds masters degrees both in building engineering and real estate, is Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and is a LEED ...

Zoos Victoria certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Melbourne Zoo's Butterfly House have significantly reduced the amount of gas needed to keep its temperature a constant 28 degrees. Zoos Victoria has also undertaken other activities including rainwater harvesting at Healesville's animal hospital and ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... investments in the mining and minerals, property and construction, and oil and gas sectors. The likelihood of more than two degrees of global warming in coming decades means that investors in Australian industries must consider how those companies will ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and pricing externalities such as carbon emissions. "The fact is, if we are going to contain global warming below two degrees, as many governments have committed to doing, roughly half of the world's existing fossil fuel resources can't be burned," she ...

Australian infrastructure underprepared for climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... temperatures rise, so do the costs of adaptation and the risks of getting it wrong. For a global temperature rise of less than 2 degrees Celsius, climate impacts must at the very least be integrated to infrastructure design, construction, maintenance ...

Accountancy profession a driver of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... students to different disciplines and different ways of thinking," said Tingey-Holyoak. "In Germany, in their first year of degrees and post grad digress, everyone is in the same courses together- they all learn parts of each other's and then they specialise ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... per year deemed necessary by the International Energy Agency to hold the increase of global average temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius - the target agreed in Cancun last year." The report by the bodies emphasises the need for investment-grade policies ...

ASX500 companies increase number of women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... � More than one third of women directors on the ASX200 studied Commerce or Economics as part of their undergraduate degrees. New backgrounds we include this year include pharmacy and town planning. There were 39 directors with masters degrees ...

Renewable energy could meet up to 80% of global supply by 2050: IPCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... gases at 450 parts per million. This could contribute towards a goal of holding the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius - an aim recognized in the United Nations Climate Convention's Cancun Agreements. The potential role of renewable ...