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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 ...

LGS generating energy savings certificates from retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... using solar panels at its office property in its portfolio at 2-4 Lyonpark Road, Macquarie Park under the Renewable Energy Target scheme (RET). The fund will look to generate additional certificates off the back of the installation of a trigeneration ...

Capturing the upside potential of Australia's carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... carbon permits after 2015. The government has just issued a discussion paper of its biennial review of the renewable energy target of 20% of the nation's energy to be sourced from renewable energy by 2020, adding to the uncertainty, Armstrong said. "That ...

Commonwealth Bank reports increased customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... the bank noted it had made 354 job opportunities. In environmental outcomes, the bank said it was on track to meet its target of a 20% reduction in carbon emission based on 2008/2009 levels by 2013. The bank reported 147,124 tonnes of scope 1, 2 and ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... analysis of how legislated programs such as the Clean Energy Future and other initiatives, such as the renewable energy target, can be used to transform Australia into a low carbon economy and keep it competitive with other markets in the region. "I ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
More companies globally are reporting awareness of the risks of water-related issues to the Carbon Disclosure Report (CDP), but there has been no change in number of companies with board-level oversight of water strategies. CDP invited 318 companies ...

Wesfarmers publishes 2012 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... to 1,164 in 2012. There were increases in Indigenous employees at Coles, Bunnings and Office Supplies, but reductions at Target and Kmart. Wesfarmers did not disclose forward targets, calling them a "distraction". "Reporting openly and transparently ...