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Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
The Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIICCSRTE) has released two draft bills to implement the changes required to bring forward the move to the flexible emissions trading scheme (ETS) carbon ...

J.P. Morgan rates Australian REITs reporting, management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... suspect that the ethical choice of tenant line up in a REIT's portfolio is an area of potentially sizeable change and development - for now it appears that change is a long way off." Other social factors, such as basic employee statistic and a breakdown ...

Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... that we need and a lot of engagement on defining where the low carbon exposures are so you can do it. That's quite a development, and it will support the development of our low carbon registry." In a case study in the report, Cbus, the AU$21 billion ...

New Forests, CEFC agreement on bioenergy, biofuel finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
New Forests and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation have agreed to collaborate to finance bioenergy and biofuel developments. Under the collaboration agreement, New Forests will develop opportunities in renewable energy complementing regional forest ...

CEFC provides $75 million to Energy Developments Limited

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will provide AU$75 million in financing to Energy Developments Limited (EDL) for investment in projects to generate energy from waste coal mine gas and landfill gas and remote hybrid renewables projects. CEFC ...

NYSE joins UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Exchanges (SSE) initiative. The SSE Initiative is co-organized by the UN Global Compact, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative ...

PRI working group calls for sustainable palm oil commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... The group is currently engaging with 20 companies to seek improvements in policies and processes that support the development of a sustainable palm oil industry through the work of RSPO. The working group pointed to forest fires in Sumatra that have ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... and risk management process that needs to be established to be ready. This includes a carbon strategy, policies and development of a trading platform within the business. This can take up to six to nine months for companies to put in place and in some ...

LGS joins Investor Statement on Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... enforceable. There is the appeal of the lower salaries of emerging markets, and the potential to contribute to the development of emerging markets, but we have to understand what are acceptable standards and not a violation of labour and human rights." ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... organisation said in response to questions. "We believe our participation in the CFI will strengthen and aid in the development of the market as a whole. Greenfleet believes that it is very important to provide assurance to our supporters, to the community ...