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Government announces plan to abolish ARENA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... consolidated revenue. Treasurer Joe Hockey unveiled the 2014/2015 budget on Tuesday night. As part of the budget announcement, Treasury announced it would abolish the agency and return its functions to the Department of Industry. In its place, government ...

RepuTex: DAP could achieve more reductions than CPM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... abatement, but there has been a downgrade in expectations over the last 18 months in terms of the carbon price. Instead of Treasury's carbon price which rises from $12 to $28 by 2020, we're assuming a more commercial price - around $10 on average thru ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... having formerly worked as a director at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and has also worked in NSW Treasury, in venture capital in the US and UK, and in the UK Treasury. He steps in as the CEO role has been expanded from a part-time ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... opportunity, it varied from our other, Melbourne EUAs as they were retrofits of an existing building," said Robert Wyllie, treasury manager, Eureka Funds Management. "This is for the construction of a trigeneration plant within an existing building that ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... fund is still preforming above the benchmark." Hartnett noted that the IFC bond issue, of which LGS purchased US$6m, a treasury-style bond. Green assets earmarked for the funding are ring-fenced with rules reviewed by CICERO, the Oslo climate research ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... be seen as a luxury firms can't afford. Our story starts with recent studies on Australian national income by both the Treasury [1] and McKinsey & Company [2]. Economic measures like GDP, GNP, current accounts and national debt always are of interest. ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... change. They combine that explicit environmental mission with a similar profile to standard debt instruments, covering treasury-style bonds, treasury-style retail offerings "involving a coupon linked to carbon credits or green indexes" and asset-backed ...

Ken Henry to speak at ACCSR annual conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry will give a keynote address at the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR)'s fifth annual conference on the state of corporate social responsible in Australia. Henry, who is also a non-executive ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... allow stakeholders sufficient time to comply with their new obligations before the licensing requirements commence," Treasury said in a statement accompanying the announcement of the draft legislation. See Also: Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders ...

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... SSgA's High Quality Green Bond Strategy seeks to approximate the duration of its benchmark, the Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Index, through investments principally in green bonds issued by MDBs and other debt instruments. SSgA notes that the bonds ...