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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 ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... does give a cap on pollution and it helps to manage/insure that targets are actually met." Under the current Clean Energy Future legislation, Australia's carbon pricing mechanism will be a fixed price of $23/tonne of CO2 emissions generated by liable ...

Ann Byrne to step down as ACSI CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... in the management of ESG investment risk over the last five years and after October I look forward to reading about its future successes," Byrne said. Byrne is currently a board member of Oxfam Australia, a member of the Monash University Department ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... speaking with superannuation funds. "Superannuation funds are an interesting business because you're looking far into the future in a way that you're not as a day trader or a short-term investor," McKibben said. "At the most basic level, it makes no ...

NGS Super allocates to NSW social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... a key component to our investments, overall, where we are able factor in social benefits of our investments, we do. In future, we will be folding the SBB option into an ethically-focused investment option that we are planning to offer. " NGS Super has ...

Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The leader of the Australian Greens party has called for the Future Fund to divest its investments in coal companies. Senator Christine Milne "Earlier this year the Future Fund ditched its tobacco investments in response to a campaign led by the Greens," ...

Pollinate Energy brings solar lighting to urban slums

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... it's so expensive. However, we are looking at it because we are also looking at distributing smokeless cook stoves in the future as well. All research into low-hanging fruit for impacting climate change shows that kerosene is the main source for that ...