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CEFC provides $20m loan facility to Carnegie Wave Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Defence at Garden Island in Western Australia. It will be the first grid connected array globally and the first time any company has created a wave farm with multiple wave energy converters to produce electricity and fresh water, CEFC said. The CEFC ...

CDP, FirstCarbon Solutions sign expanded partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... three-year agreement. FCS has been a CDP scoring partner since 2011, and CDP said that since 2011, they had scored "over 6,400 company disclosures and provided guidance to help organisations track and improve environmental performance." FCS is CDP's ...

AMP Capital increases focus on corporate succession planning

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... semi-annual corporate governance report. "We look at all sorts of intangible factors when we look at the sustainability of a company's business model and the sustainability of their ability to create returns for investors over the long term," Halliday ...

Australian Ethical Investment hires head of ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical Investment has hired Dr Stuart Palmer as head of ethics. As head of ethics, Dr Palmer will work with the company's ethical advisers CAER and the investment team "to further develop the company's ethical investment frameworks, which ...

CEFC, CBA finance efficiency upgrades for food processors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... said. "Our plants convert the business's organic waste to a bioenergy supply that is used to power its operations and the company agrees to purchase the generated power at an agreed rate for a specified time," said Richard Brimblecombe, Quantum Power ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Indigenous traditional owner groups." This is the second NAB RAP to be independently assured by EY, and NAB is the only company to have its RAP externally assured. NAB has called for more accountability through independent verification of NABs, and Brennan ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... seam gas through fracking. Natural gas, coking coal and conventional oil remain eligible for investment, and "[w]here a company is a major investor in renewable energy, that interest will be offset from excluded fossil fuels interests when considering ...

RepuTex: DAP could achieve more reductions than CPM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Grossman said is raised in the government's green paper. "A secondary market would come into play, such that essentially any company that increases its emissions over its absolute baseline, based on historical five-year maximum emissions, would be able ...

PRI, GRESB agree to closer collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... said. "It focuses on organisational-level policies and processes. GRESB provides a more detailed assessment of fund or company-level activities, including risk management, policy and process but also with a strong focus on sustainability performance. ...

AMP Capital busts ESG myths

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... understand what ESG is. It's not just screening out bad companies; it's about looking at the earnings sustainability of a company's model, and as long term shareholders, that's very important." The report outlines how ESG integration is different from ...