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Carbon Trade Exchange sells EU arm to EEM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX) has sold its European operations to European Environmental Markets (EEM). Baden Wright, chief executive officer Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX) The sale will see EEM take over CTX EU's European clients and European exchange businesses ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance receives $33m federal funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... things, work in different ways, and to find new and innovative ways of reaching people. This will go a long way to reach the target of one million people experiencing financial hardship by 2018." One in six, or 3.1 million adult Australians, is financially ...

Pollinate Energy to open Kolkata office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... charging facilities, which are very popular in the communities, Seller said. Thus far, Pollinate has sold in Bangalore, with target customers being the residents of slums who earn day wages. Pollinate Energy previously told The Sustainability Report ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... enough to limit warming to below 2 degrees C. What that initiative is particularly focused on is raising the ambition of the target so they help companies to set targets to account for their fair share of carbon emissions." To assist in the setting of ...

Local Government Super top AODP index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... asset owners reduced their carbon intensity in the past year, and 2% of asset owners have an emissions intensity reduction target for next year. LGS's top rating was based on its management - LGS does calculate portfolio-wide emissions, and the superannuation ...

AODP, ClientEarth to challenge funds on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... to fall below the standards required of them." Julian Poulter, AODP CEO, did not name the pension funds that CPLI will target, pointing to the AODP Global Climate Index and the laggards on the list as potential funds of interest. "Australia is a highly ...

BP shareholders pass Aiming for A climate risk resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... Aiming for A's approach, which was built on consensus building between investors as well as between the coalition and the target companies. "What Aiming for A has done is a very clever thing, in that she took an inefficient model that had previously ...

AICD backs 30% women ASX200 directors target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) is backing a 30% target for female directors of ASX200 companies by 2018. This new target is a "significant extension" of AICD's previous diversity initiatives, said John Brogden, AICD managing director ...

Melbourne, Sydney join Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... greenhouse gas emissions by 80% or more by 2050. "The City of Melbourne is committed becoming a carbon neutral city, and has a target of zero net emissions by 2020," said Lord Mayor Robert Doyle. "This alliance will support us to work through the challenges ...

Women on Boards tracks gender diversity gains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Currently, only 10% of the 252 Australian companies held by AMP Cpaital meet that point. AMP Capital noted that to hit that 30% target, 269 male directors would have to be replaced by women, or 400 women directors would have to be added, at a total cost ...