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FTSE launch carbon risk indices for Australia, Europe and Japan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... carbon risk. The approach calculates carbon risk based on a set of future-orientated criteria, rather than historic emissions data. "One of the key elements to avoiding dangerous climate change is that we shift capital flow towards companies that are ...

IGCC and others launch second global investor survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... risks by examining investment strategies, policies, company engagement practices and investment decisions. "Reducing emissions exposure, while finding the revenue generating businesses of the new economy are now key investment challenges," Nathan Fabian ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... 415 of the largest companies around the world, calling for cost-effective management and reductions of their carbon emissions. As part of the CDP's Carbon Action initiative, the letters were sent on behalf of 92 pension funds, asset managers, insurers ...

LGS select MSCI for ESG and carbon research, monitoring

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... our members' environmental and social concerns," said Peter Lambert, CEO at LGS. "The implementation of the new carbon emissions and ESG reporting capability will enable us to better analyse and communicate our responsible investment outcomes to members ...

Chloe Munro named head of Clean Energy Regulator

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... mechanism, the National Greenhouse Energy Reporting Scheme, the Renewable Energy Target, the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units and the Carbon Farming Initiative. Munro is the current chair of the National Water Commission and has senior ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for oil and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and the extent to which these factors might impair assets. The resolution was tabled by the Climate Advocacy Shareholder ...

Debate over setting surrender charges for carbon units

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... government's Clean Energy Future legislation, from July 2015 to June 2018, the price of offsetting a tonne of carbon emissions will be priced within a relative band - a floor of AU$15/tonne and a ceiling of AU$20 above the expected international carbon ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... encouraging but since these trends are only now emerging, we are yet to see a transformational impact on suppliers' emissions." The number of responding companies that have climate change strategies covering procurement policies has risen to 90%, up ...

Henry Davis York reports increase in pro bono, energy and travel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... arrangements. The firm's revenue grew 4% for the 2011 fiscal year, but environmental performance indicators - greenhouse gas emissions, electricity, paper consumption and waste generation - grew disproportionately to revenue, the firm disclosed. "While ...

IGCC working group engages on green finance design, function

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Corporation (CEFC), the AU$10bn institution that will provide financing for renewable energy, energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. The CEFC is expected to start operating from 2013-2014, but an expert panel chaired by Jillian Broadbent ...