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Only 4% of CDP respondents see high risks with carbon pricing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... and NZ50 companies reported to this year's Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) that they saw risks associated with carbon pricing, but many also saw opportunities and only 4% of respondents said the risks were rated as high. According to the 2011 CDP Australia ...

Carbon tax passes Senate, pricing concerns remain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Senate has passed the Clean Energy Future legislative package, starting the countdown to the 1 July 2012 launch of a carbon pricing regime. But while businesses have short term certainty with the package's passage, they will still have longer term uncertainty ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... to a relative dearth of ESG -specific fixed income products. "Imagine some utilities that have exposures through carbon pricing, for example," Woods said. "There is certainly an issue there for debt holders, and that's one of the discussions around brown ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... that it is "well positioned" for the implementation of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme and the Australian carbon pricing package, which recently passed the Australian Parliament's lower house. AWE is liable under its joint venture in New Zealand's ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... of the Climate Change Authority (CCA), which is an independent body that will provide independent advice on the carbon pricing mechanism. Former Reserve Bank Governor and former Treasury Secretary Bernie Fraser has been named the CCA's first chairman. ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... investments more attractive to private capital investors," IGCC said in a statement. "Despite the introduction of carbon pricing, many investment barriers and market failures remain that could limit the allocation of private capital to emerging technologies ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Legislation by the lower house of Parliament on Wednesday means businesses and investors have certainty around the carbon pricing regime and can plan accordingly for launch on 1 July 2012. Grant Anderson Grant Anderson, a partner in the energy and resources ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... view them through the lens of a presumed future in which carbon is priced higher than now, looking to the proposed carbon pricing regime presented in the government's Clean Energy Future legislation. Industry Funds Management has a significant exposure ...

Carbon price an "entry point" for sustainability discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Magner spoke to a symposium of CFOs at the University of New South Wales on the potential impact of the proposed carbon pricing regime in the Clean Energy Future legislative package, plus the role that the CFO and senior corporate financial professionals ...

Investors integrating ESG into decisions have "an edge"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... investors and environmental risks and opportunities are increasingly quantifiable as a result of initiatives such as carbon pricing, social considerations still lag. "We find that the environmental side is easier to encapsulate than the social side because ...