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NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... education, AustralianSuper The Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) has been joined by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) on The Vital Few, a grassroots project that asks people to contact their superannuation fund demanding disclosure and ...

Local Government Super adopts private equity ESG framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... (ESG) framework for private equity investment. Bill Hartnett The ESG Disclosure Framework is the result of a global coalition of 40 limited partners, 20 private equity associations and more than 10 leading general partners from 11 countries and is based ...

Companies advised to manage carbon price future uncertainty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... ongoing price of carbon and other measures in the government's Clean Energy Future legislation. The Liberal-National Coalition, which is currently favoured to win the September election based on polling by a variety of outlets, has pledged to repeal ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... keep the regime in place if the Australian Labor Party is returned to power, while the leader of the opposition Liberal coalition, Tony Abbott, has sworn a "blood oath" to dissolve the carbon pricing regime. But for multinational companies, domestic ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... is not certain. There will be a federal election on 14 September, and Tony Abbott, leader of the opposition Liberal coalition and current polling favourite to become prime minister, has sworn a "blood oath" to repeal the government's Clean Energy Future ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... be 14 September. Opposition leader Tony Abbot has made repealing the carbon pricing mechanism a centre point of the coalition's policy approach, but has also said that he would leave the CFI in place. ""The main areas that we're focusing on are landfill ...

Investor groups call for new climate change policy responses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
A coalition of organisations including the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) have called upon the governments of the world's largest economies to engage in a new dialogue on climate change policy ahead of the international climate negotiations ...

Capturing the upside potential of Australia's carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... go up to eur15. These are the questions people are now asking." Market uncertainties abound - the federal opposition coalition remains committed to unwinding the legislation establishing the three-year fixed price period of $23-per-tonne of carbon emissions ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... safe" because of the uncertainty surrounding the future of the pricing mechanism should the opposition Liberal/National coalition win at the next federal elections. The coalition has committed to unwinding the scheme. "It is critical that businesses ...

ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
ANZ is a leader both in Australia and internationally for the development, strategy and delivery of financial inclusion and capability programs, according to a third-party review of the bank. According to the review by the Allen Consulting Group, ANZ's ...