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ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... forward the start of the floating emissions trading scheme (ETS) to 1 July 2014. The proposal would end the fixed price on carbon a year early and catalyse liable entities to organise their hedging and trading policies faster than expected. Jennifer ...

CEFC in active discussions with project proponents

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Macarthur Wind Farm in Victoria. The CEFC and Commonwealth Bank also announced the AU$100 million expansion of an existing Low Carbon Australia co-financing program for energy efficiency business loans. "We are in active discussions with over 50 project ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... investment in large-scale renewable energy or energy efficiency assets, providing investors with a scope to tilt towards lower-carbon assets. The combination of growing consensus around climate science, the potential for tighter carbon regulation and ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Greenfleet, a reforestation not-for-profit, has had two of its reforestation projects registered under the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). Greenfleet used the CFI's Sequestration: Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... their labour and human rights supply chain research and, depending on the result of the forthcoming federal election, the carbon pricing regime. Byrne is currently a board member of Oxfam Australia, a member of the Monash University Department of Accounting ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... climate-themed bonds was US$74 billion last year. HSBC screened more than 10,000 bonds from 2,300 corporations against seven low-carbon, climate resilient themes - transport, energy, finance, buildings and industry, agriculture and forestry and waste ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation makes first investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... a combination of Vestas V90-2.0 MW, V100-1.8 MW and V90-3.0 MW turbines, CEFC said. It is estimated to avoid Australian carbon emissions by 250,000 tonnes a year. " The joint venture between CBD Energy and Santander combines the considerable experience ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... and received 180 responses. Of those 180 participants, 64.7% favoured a market-based emissions trading scheme, while a carbon tax with a fixed price was supported by 28.8%, 3.3% of businesses didn't support any form of priced-based carbon policy and ...

Algae.Tec signs agreement with Macquarie Generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Biofuels company Algae.Tec has signed a deal with Macquarie Generation to site an algae carbon capture and biofuels production facility beside a 2640MW coal-fired power station in New South Wales. The agreement with Macquarie Generation, which is owned ...

CDP extends partnership with FirstCarbon Solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... (FCS) to Australia, New Zealand, the Nordics and Benelux regions and India, bring extended services measuring supply chain carbon management and sustainability scoring to those countries. FCS is the scoring partner for CDP's supply chain program and ...