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Australia ranked fourth on global renewable energy list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... the RET should be every four years and not every two years. Balancing that is the political uncertainty surrounding the carbon pricing regime - if successful in the September federal elections, the current opposition Liberal-National Coalition has pledged ...

Budget to cut ARENA funding, bring forward money to CTIP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... also criticised the government for cutting a further AU$260 million of funding for energy efficiency programs like Low Carbon Communities and large-scale solar programs. On the more positive side, in the budget, the government proposed bringing forward ...

CA Technologies: increased focus on IT energy consumption

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... services provider CA Technologies says there is increased consumer demand for companies to manage IT energy consumption and carbon emissions, driving increased uptake of their enterprise software products, and impacting CA Technologies' sustainability ...

Energy audit implementation yields cost savings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... their forklifts overnight on off-peak?" Separately, Pangolin Associates has also announced that it has selected Acresta's carbon accounting software tool, CarbonView. "The process to select a software partner that best complements our suite of services ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Fund and the Green Climate Fund of the United Nations to encourage financing of projects to aid in the transition to a low carbon economy, Yates said that each vehicle is structured to meet differing strategies, local accounting standards and methods. ...

Australian exposed to carbon bubble through coal resources

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
Australian coal exports are 11% of the global coal market, but represent 25% of a precautionary global carbon budget for coal, exposing investors in coal resourcesto potentially rapid devaluation and stranded assets, according to a report by The Climate ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... and analysis is likely to result in superannuation funds acting to rebalance their portfolios in allocating more to low-carbon investments," said Julian Poulter, AODP executive director. "The objective is certainly to increase low carbon investments ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation gets investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... news of the CEFC's investment mandate. "Organisations like the CEFC can attract and support private sector interest in low carbon investment and address gaps in financial services markets," said Nathan Fabian, chief executive of the Investor Group on ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... than 14% of the ASX200 market capitalisation is based on fossil fuels, and the value of fossil fuel assets is at risk in a carbon constrained world, but the risk is not evenly distributed across all resources or across a long term time horizon, according ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Golden North project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Ice cream brand Golden North has received financing from Low Carbon Australia to improve its refrigeration as part of an AU$3 million expansion project. Golden North spend will spend AU$895,000 in refrigeration improvements as part of the expansion ...