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Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... applies to a variety of landholding sectors, it offers miners who are potentially going to fall under the proposed carbon pricing initiative to offset their liabilities by generating carbon credits. The credits are considered a financial product under ...

R. M. Williams Agricultural Holdings to fund NT property conservation with carbon rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... System and fund it with carbon rights. It will feed directly into the government's carbon farming initiative and carbon pricing policy." In a statement, Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Mark Dreyfus welcomed the project ...

Carbon price will capture mines' fugitive emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian government's carbon pricing plan will tax mines for "fugitive" gas emissions - emissions of trapped methane that are released during the extraction process, according to a briefing from the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). ...

ACSI release governance guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... distribution, human health, energy consumption and waste generation," as well as the potential impact of climate change and carbon pricing as well as resource use, including waste, water and energy. Human capital management covers issues from recruitment ...

Assistance will "significantly reduce" effects of carbon tax on industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
Companies that fall under the government's proposed carbon pricing scheme will most likely see the negative effects on costs and earnings "significantly reduced" by the planned assistance package, according to research from MSCI. Emissions Intensive ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... carbon price announcement delivers both." IGCC CEO Nathan Fabian said. "This scheme gives the market a transparent carbon pricing framework for the long term." IGCC also highlighted the setting of a 2050 emissions reduction target and maintaining five ...

Benchmarking superannuation funds' sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... significant impact on the overall assessment. The fear is that it would be diluted." However, with the impending carbon pricing regime that is anticipated to come to Australia, funds must have processes ready to manage the exposures that they will have ...

IGCC: carbon price delay could cost electricity sector $2.5bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
A four-year delay to the start of a carbon pricing regime in Australia would cause an additional AU$2.5bn of additional costs to the electricity sector for both investors and energy users, according to a study commissioned by the Investor Group on Climate ...

Climate change issues integrated into investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... face to avoid dangerous climate change." In the report, Australian respondents were concerned about the lack of carbon pricing system and a less certain regulatory environment, although there is an increasing focus from investors on policy advocacy and ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... analysis of nine of Australia's major trading partners by the Productivity Commission concludes that establishing a carbon pricing mechanism is a more efficient means of reducing consumption than other schemes that raise the explicit and implicit costs ...