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Bush Heritage Australia fund pays farmers for conservation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... said. "We need to make these payments in the long term to help people to plan their long term enterprise management around future conservation." The Midlands Conservation Fund is part of a broader Tasmanian Midlands Conservation project between Bush ...

Two directors stepping down at Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... enormously from his skills and experience," said Chairman Steve Gibbs in a statement. "We wish him the very best for the future."

CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... lowered consumer costs. They would be enabled by the Australian energy regulator allowing network businesses to share in the future savings of avoided network infrastructure in order to recover investment in Demand Management, the CEFC said. "This scoping ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced a proposal to bring forward the start of the floating emissions trading scheme (ETS) to 1 July 2014. The proposal would end the fixed price on carbon a year early and catalyse liable entities to organise their ...

CEFC in active discussions with project proponents

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is in "active discussions" with over 50 project proponents, according to CEO Oliver Yates. CEFC CEO Oliver Yates The CEFC officially began investing in 1 July, but Yates previously told The Sustainability ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... introduce tracking error into portfolio returns, and raises the possibility that an investor may miss out on the sector's future outperformance," Impax said in the report. "So, as a replacement for MSCI Energy, we modelled the performance of the MSCI ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Kong, South Africa, UAE and the UK who looked at the impact of paragraph 47 of the United Nation's outcome document, The Future We Want, which was agreed at the Rio+20 conference in 2012. "We acknowledge the importance of corporate sustainability reporting ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... will be registered under the Carbon Farming Initiative and therefore not all Greenfleet sites will generate ACCUs." The future price of ACCUs is one of the factors that Greenfleet is considering when looking at other project sites. "The price of ACCU's ...

LUCRF Community Partnership Trust opens in South Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... to allocate a contribution out of our marketing budget and say to people that this is about demonstrating our values." Future may see the fund set up a direct giving program for members, Sword said. "All that is about us trying to use a bit of our marketing ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation makes first investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... syndicate also includes ANZ, NAB, ING, Shinsei, ICBC and EKF. "Successful refinancing deals help send a strong message to future large-scale renewable energy projects in Australia that it is possible for developers to successfully complete a development-finance-exit ...