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IIGCC joins International Climate Bond Standards Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... are already board members. Other board members are the California State Teachers Retirement System, California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Natural Resources Defense Council. A Climate Bonds certification is issued ...

Publish What You Pay to take case to new government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott named the ministers who will comprise the new government. Joe Hockey has been named treasurer, with Mathias Cormann named finance minister, Arthur Sinodinos the new assistant treasurer responsible for superannuation and ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Carbon Disclosure Project, the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk, the Investor Group on Climate Change and the State Treasurer of California, Bill Lockyer.

Publish What You Pay renews call for mandatory disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... governments in which they operate because it increases transparency around governance and social responsibility. Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury said last month that the government will assess the results of Australia's EITI pilot after it concludes ...

EITI conference advocates for moving beyond transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... his country has agreed to implement the EITI standard by the end of 2013, and David Bradbury, Australia's assistant treasurer (see Australia to consider country-level payment disclosures ) Meanwhile, as the conference in was going on in Sydney, at a ...

Australia to consider country-level payment disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... results of the Australian pilot of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) later this year. Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury Speaking at the EITI conference in Sydney on Thursday, Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury said that Australia's ...

Budget to cut ARENA funding, bring forward money to CTIP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Clean Technology Investment Program (CTIP). Jonathan Jutsen, executive director, Energetics Treasurer Wayne Swan's budget proposal will postpone funding amounting to AU$370 million until 2020, and the process to put that ...

Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Energy Agency, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, US Green Building Council, the Office of the State Treasurer of California and others. The Climate Bond Standard announced that the working group held its first teleconference meeting ...

CSA warns on timing of undirected proxy vote legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... the bill at the earlier parliamentary sitting on 8 May 2012. Meanwhile, Bernie Ripoll, parliamentary secretary to the treasurer, reiterated the government's intention to resolve the issue before the next AGM season. "The government recognises the urgency ...

Working group to develop Sharia-compliant green securities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
The Climate Bonds Initiative, the Clean Energy Business Council of the Middle East and North Africa and The Gulf Bond and Sukuk Association have formed a working group to develop best practices and promote the issuance of "green" sukuks, Sharia-compliant ...