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IIGCC urges greater energy efficiency for EU property sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... improvements throughout a building's lifecycle, according to a paper published by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). IIGCC represent members with a total of EUR 7.5tr in assets under management. Buildings are responsible for ...

Farming, forestry activities proposed for CFI positive list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency is considering a series of new activities to include on its "positive list", meaning that activities including farm forestry, intensive rotational grazing and aspects of small landfill operation ...

The UpSide interview: Dr Fraser Thompson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... from Hunter Gatherer on Vimeo. Kimmorley presents this interview, one in a series of discussions with UK-based climate change economics and business experts in The UpSide: what next for a sustainable Australia? The interviews focus on topics ranging ...

CFSGAM hires Pablo Berrutti as responsible investment head

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... investment teams across asset classes in the Asia Pacific region. Berrutti is the current chair of the Investor Group on Climate Change research working group, and a director of Responsible Investment Association of Australasia. McCluskey, head of sustainability ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... preparation of liable listed companies is adequate to good," said Nathan Fabian, chief executive of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). "We suspect that in the last couple of months, there have been some companies getting up to speed or catching ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... report exposure to similar risks. "Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth, and the water impacts of climate change are likely to be more severe than other countries," said James Day, CDP's director - Australia and New Zealand. "Australian ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... The company's Climate Advocacy Fund, an indexed fund explicitly designed to permit increased engagement around climate change issues, will continue its work. "We have no plans to stop advocacy," Smith said. "However, we're definitely taking a bigger ...

British government to mandate LSE greenhouse gas disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... April 2013. The Carbon Disclosure Project welcomed the news, and recommended that the British government adopt a climate change reporting framework developed by the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), a project of CDP. CDSB has been developing ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... implement certain national obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and also creates financial incentives to undertake emission avoidance and sequestration offset projects and increase carbon ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... financial sustainability and environmental, social and governance factors. The Climate Bonds Initiative and the HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence found that there is USD$174bn worth of climate-themed bonds outstanding today, covering sectors including ...