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Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... at the least amount of cost as evidence that many companies view engagement as a way of managing risk, rather than generating value. "If a company really saw that there was value in engaging with Indigenous people, wouldn't they be trying to maximise ...

Durban agreements to impact Australia's ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... also manages a portfolio of CDM projects and the associated CER credits. COzero has 30 projects in the CDM portfolio, generating 30m tonnes of offsets over a 10 year period. "It changes the way we purchase CERs now," said COzero CEO Nick Armstrong. "If ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... credits from carbon abatement and sequestration activities. At the moment, the CFI only recognises three procedures to generating carbon credits, and industry participants are calling for more methodologies to facilitate the scheme's uptake. Landholders ...

Australia enters the era of carbon as a commodity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... project in developing countries. The projects can generate CER credits. COzero has 30 projects in the CDM portfolio, generating 30m tonnes of offsets over a 10 year period. According to their website, one example of a CDM project that COzero is partnered ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... other building services systems. The electricity demand from air conditioning chillers is replaced with reclaim heat generating chilled water with an absorption chiller. Domestic hot water is heated by re-claimed heat. The retrofit cost approximately ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... AU$750m project, which will be built on 18,000Ha and will have 111 turbines with a power production capacity of 206MW, generating on average 792,000 MWh per year, enough to provide electricity to power a small city of 125,000 homes. Infrastructure as ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... miners who are potentially going to fall under the proposed carbon pricing initiative to offset their liabilities by generating carbon credits. The credits are considered a financial product under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

R. M. Williams Agricultural Holdings to fund NT property conservation with carbon rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... will see cattle permanently removed from the property and a conservation plan implemented, with the expectation of generating up to 1.5m carbon credits a year. The project will restore the landscape and protect several endangered species and will be ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... analytics to create an integrated framework of analysis that can provide powerful tools for mitigating investment risk and generating return. Michael Salvatico For MSCI, the global index, governance and research provider, ESG complements more traditional ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... expenditure, regulatory instruments, support for research and development and other measures that had an effect of generating a cost for the abatement achieved by policies. The report concluded that demand-side policies - policies that reduce demand ...