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ASrIA: US$74bn in sustainable investment assets in Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Over 130 investment managers in Asia use sustainable investment approaches, and there is US$74bn of identified sustainable investment assets under management in the Asian region, according to a report from the Association for Sustainable and Responsible ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Diversified property group Charter Hall has reported establishing a corporate responsibility and sustainability (CR&S) working group and increased embedding of environmental, social and governance issues in their businesses objectives in its first sustainability ...

Climate Change Authority backs Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
The Climate Change Authority (CCA) has recommended that the government retain its renewable energy target (RET), which aims to source 20% of Australia's energy from renewable sources by 2020, a decision that has been welcomed as providing stability ...

Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Net Balance and sustainable procurement advisory firm ECO-Buy have merged, bringing together two leading specialist sustainability organisations. Cameron Neil, Net Balance The merger will see both entities increase the range of their sustainability ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia is providing financing for an AU$11m pilot energy project in regional Victoria that will potentially improve power security during peak demand through providing lower-emissions power generation. Site of NovaPower's energy project ...

ClimateWorks Australia developing GHG reductions index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... the impact of businesses' activities to reduce emissions as well as track the country's progress to achieving its stated target of 5% emissions reduction by 2020. It will initially focus on the large industrial sector in the first index, but will expand ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... excess of cost of capital, however, companies need to set more ambitious targets and reduce emissions to meet the IPCC target of 1.7% annual reductions in CO2e by 2020," CDP Carbon Action say in their 2012 report. Based on the data from responding companies ...

Oliver Yates named CEO of Clean Energy Finance Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... technologies. The CEFC will work in tandem with other pieces of the Clean Energy Future legislation, including the Renewable Energy Target and the carbon pricing regime. Heidrick & Struggles had been engaged to assist the CEFC board with finding the ...

Investor groups call for new climate change policy responses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
A coalition of organisations including the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) have called upon the governments of the world's largest economies to engage in a new dialogue on climate change policy ahead of the international climate negotiations ...

Combet announces phase-out of solar credit mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
The federal government will phase out the solar credit mechanism in January 2013, six months ahead of schedule, a move that is expected to lower the cost of electricity and curtail a potential oversupply in renewable energy certificates. Minister for ...