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IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC)'s new Low-Carbon Finance Working Group will play a stakeholder role with "green" financing institutions both domestically and overseas, consulting with the institutions being established by governments to ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... a media announcement by the City of Melbourne. NAB, Low Carbon Australia and Eureka Funds Management developed the EUA finance product. "The funding solution allows City of Melbourne to dually incentivise property owners and their tenants to upgrade ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), along with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and the Advisory Council of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), released a joint report and ...

Community finance draws eye of institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Foresters Community Finance, a Brisbane-based community development finance institution, believes that recent allocations by the federal government and superannuation fund Christian Super demonstrate that they can provide risk adjusted return that is ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Gillard government has created an expert review panel to advise on the design of the AU$10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which is expected to commence operations from 2013-2014. Jillian Broadbent, a board member of the Reserve Bank ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... infrastructure projects such as gas-fired electricity generators through initiatives such as the AU$10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which will provide loans, loan guarantees and equity investments in projects. Hobley of Norton Rose said ...

Christian Super allocates $6m to social enterprise fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... superannuation fund has made an AU$6m commitment to a social enterprise fund run by Brisbane-based Foresters Community Finance. Foresters' Social Enterprise Solutions brand is one of two fund managers selected by the Department of Education, Employment ...

Nearly half of ASX100 companies exposed to human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... on the subject - he pointed to Rio Tinto, ANZ, Fosters and BHP Billiton as positive examples. In general, miners, the finance sector and consumer staples have the highest demonstration of human rights risk awareness, he said. "Essentially, we are working ...

ESG analysis now part of mainstream investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... across all areas of investing is "inevitable," said Irlicht. "The reason I think it's inevitable is because the thing about finance is that there's the world out three, and finance is attempting to put prices on things that are happening in the world," ...

Carbon price an "entry point" for sustainability discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... systems around carbon accounting. The packages are either stand-alone carbon management pieces or that bolt-ons with the finance reporting software. Then you have the accounting and sustainability consultancies that are all moving into the space. One ...