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Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... worked predominately at Bankers Trust. The CEFC will provide financing to renewable energy, energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private investment, help overcome capital ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has developed two new standards that will measure greenhouse gas emissions across companies' value chains and across product life cycles. The Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) harmonizes global methodology to measure corporate ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... energy intensity fell 2.6% from 2010 to 270 megajoules/sqm, while greenhouse gas intensity fell 3.8% to 59.2kg of CO2 emissions/sqm and water intensity fell 2.8% to 555.7 litres/sqm. Dexus said that in the past three years, it achieved a 15.3% reduction ...

Regulatory barriers slowing cogeneration technology usage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... technology that is about 80% more efficient than conventional, coal powered energy generation, produces 60% less carbon emissions and can be fuelled by natural gas and renewable fuels. Cogeneration is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... supply chain. The first stage of PUMA's EP&L statement, issued earlier this year, addressed the company's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and water consumption, both within the company's operations, and critically, down the supply chain. There are two ...

Sustainability measures decline in information technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... is central to ICT sustainability." ICT is a large consumer of energy, globally responsible for 3% of greenhouse gas emissions, said Alison Rowe, Fujitsu's global executive director sustainability, in a preface to the report. "ICT is responsible for 5-10% ...

GRI release reporting standards for construction and real estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... released standards specific to the construction and real estate sectors, demonstrating how companies can report carbon emissions, management and remediation of contaminated land, and sub-contracted labour issues, among other areas. GRI's Construction ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... institutional investors as infrastructure projects that provide a hedge against the anticipation of future costs on carbon emissions as well as meet sustainable investment targets. But while global bodies and governments - including Australia - call ...

Carbon price an "entry point" for sustainability discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... reporting requirement are being put onto the CFO's desk. Under NGER, corporations that had more than 50kt of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 equivalent) for the fiscal year 2010-11 for a corporation are required to register with the Greenhouse and Energy ...

CDP finds 68% of global corporates embed climate change strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... strategies," compared to 48% in 2010. There was a dramatic rise in the number of companies reporting reduced greenhouse gas emissions as a result of emissions reduction activities - more than double, at 45% this year, up from 19% in 2010. The report ...