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ARENA allocates $2.17m to Alice Springs grid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will allocate $2.17 million to support the Alice Springs Future Grid Project. (image courtesy of ARENA) The two year project will focus on addressing barriers to further renewable energy penetration in ...

Majority of asset owners identify ESG importance: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
A wide majority of Australian asset owners believe that ESG considerations are either very important or moderately important to setting investment strategy and implementation, according to a recent survey conducted by consultancy bfinance. bfinance ...

Research project to study sustainable forestry in East Arnhem

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
A new research project led by Developing East Arnhem Limited (DEAL) is investigating potential commercial Indigenous forestry and support traditional owners to "facilitate a sustainable forest-based livelihood." Workers at the Gumatj Aboriginal Corporation ...

ARENA grants additional funding for Monash Uni renewables study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... be an ongoing issue for decades not only in Australia but globally." The project will use the West Murray Region of the north west Victorian network as the case study, due to the region's current system stability challenges. Renewable sources have had ...

Taking a closer look at corporate lobbying on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... views on examples of good or poor corporate climate change lobbying practices. Much of the literature on lobbying focuses on North America and Europe. Australian and New Zealand perspectives and experiences tend to get much less attention, and the lessons ...

Local Government Super certified carbon neutral by Climate Active

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... rated buildings in the LGS direct property portfolio include four commercial office buildings located in the Sydney CBD, North Sydney and Macquarie Park, NSW. The portfolio also includes two sub-regional shopping centres in Leichhardt, Sydney and Bateman's ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Europe, ESG has become a beta strategy and therefore is crucial for diversification in multifactor portfolios, while in North America, ESG remains an alpha strategy and diversification adds little value. Amundi attributes the difference to the result ...

Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure hires ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Responsible Investing (UNPRI). MBA GLI is majority owned by its co-founders and today manages over AU$5 billion for clients across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions, focussing on concentrated portfolios of listed infrastructure ...

Climate action by regulators deferred, not denied: MinterEllison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
The COVID-19 pandemic is not likely to halt regulatory and investor expectations around corporate progress on climate change risk, according to MinterEllison. Sarah Barker, head of climate risk governance at Minter Ellison Lawyers MinterEllison recently ...

IFM Investors report carbon emission reduction in Australian infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
IFM investors is reporting a nearly 8% reduction in carbon emissions across its Australian infrastructure portfolio in the 2018/2018 financial year. Chris Newton, head of responsible investing at IFM Investors. The IFM Investors' FY 2019 Australian ...