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Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Farming Initiative (CFI) is moving ahead, having recently approved a fourth procedure to measure and calculate emissions reductions. But legal experts note that there are several areas under discussion associated with the set-up and establishment of ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... was tailored to company-specific circumstances and had requests including commitments to make year-on-year emissions reductions; invest in emission reduction activities with a positive return on investment; set and publicly disclose an emissions reduction ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... policy. However, the report also found that while 43% of the responding companies have achieved year-on-year emissions reductions, only 28% of suppliers have achieved year-on-year emissions reductions. Meanwhile, responding companies reported that extreme ...

CDP: U.S. farmers' GHG disclosures and management varied

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... implementing comprehensive sustainable agriculture initiatives but did not report emissions data to quantify emissions reductions. Still others can report quantitative data but are unable to show improvements over time because they did not establish ...

Australia enters the era of carbon as a commodity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... 6.5m households with free energy saving lamps in the first stage of the programme, with 16m tonnes of CO2 emissions reductions over 10 years and energy savings of 33,000 GWh or 1,740 MW of deferred installed capacity over 10 years. "The royalty framework ...

Carbon price package could yield greater than expected reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... with the US-based ClimateWorks Foundation. ClimateWorks Australia's mission is to facilitate substantial emissions reductions in the next five years in Australia by working with government, business, industry groups and the community via a collaborative ...

IGCC: carbon price delay could cost electricity sector $2.5bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... has a range of suppliers with differing emission intensities, a range of price elasticities and a range of emissions reductions options, the report said. "The costs of delay identified in this report are really the tip of the iceberg," said Frank Pegan ...

ANZ publishes interim corporate responsibility report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... emissions, against a target of lowering GHG emissions by 6% this year. "In Australia our target for absolute emissions reductions was set prior to the acquisitions of ING in Australia and NZ, Landmark and the Royal Bank of Scotland in Asia," the report ...