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City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... that the national conversation is really confusing - they don't want to hear about philosophical arguments about climate change, what they want to know is how [the EUA] works, what it costs, when the return on investment appears, and what is the simplest ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... investors calling on the world's top oil and gas, coal and electric power companies to assess the financial risks of climate change to their business. The Carbon Asset Risk (CAR) initiative, coordinated by Ceres and the Carbon Tracker Initiative, with ...

DLA Piper: climate change legal risk in property development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
State legislation requiring local municipal bodies to take climate change into account when considering property development proposals are leading to unexpected and unpredictable outcomes that expose companies and government authorities to legal risk ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon emissions in industrialized countries will need to drop by at least 90% by 2050 in order to avoid severe climate change." Kidney said. "The still largely petroleum-based chemical industry can play a leading role in this process. First, substantial ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... they will need to surrender carbon units to cover their final 2013/14 emissions liability." Elisa de Wit, head of climate change at Norton Rose, also saw the timing as the main challenge, with complications to contracts if the CPM is repealed later in ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... director of Ethinvest. "We thought that supporting his nomination would be a good way of highlighting the issue of climate change risk in a different way to the way it's been done previously, and that he was eminently qualified to take concerns around ...

Property developers advised to factor in climate change risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Australian property developers should start factoring in climate change impacts immediately or face significant financial risk, according to Net Balance. "While the local government have understood climate risk and opportunity for some time, the property ...

VicSuper, bankmecu, Pacific Hydro join Future Economy Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... developed The Future Economy Group, and they say their mission is to quantify how vulnerable Victoria's economy is to climate change and resource scarcity and then to advocate for policies and actions to transition to "a strong and sustainable economy ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... specialized field to handle the complex technical problems that accounting for and assurance of water resources, climate change, carbon trading and whole ecosystems present." One area that will have to be overcome is how corporations can attribute their ...

Insurer Catlin Group sponsors survey of global coral reefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... International insurer Catlin Group has sponsored a survey of the world's coral reefs to monitor and assess the effects of climate change and the damage to coral. Photo courtesy of Catlin Global Reef Record The Catlin Seaview Survey is conducting the ...