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SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... that the income stream is "relatively secure" in that the clientele will use accommodation chits from the Queensland government. Three Sistas will work with Apunipima Cape York Health Council to ensure clients from Cape York have access to affordable ...

AGL Energy, First Solar granted $130m for solar project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
AGL Energy and solar photovoltaic manufacturer First Solar will receive an AU$129.7m federal government grant to help finance a 159 megawatt solar power project. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson The AU$450m project will be built in Broken Hill and ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... income investment manager based in Melbourne. Omega received a nearly AU$170m mandate from the nearly AU$6bn Local Government Super superannuation fund to implement a global government bond strategy that explicitly takes environmental, social and governance ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has moved all of its nearly AU$170m government bond allocation to a strategy that explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into the selection process, including a specific allocation of ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... financially excluded population. As an example of that, recently, NAB, Good Shepherd Microfinance and the Victorian state government launched an AU$7.8m retail project to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services ...

Report: US$174bn global market for climate-themed bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia]," he said. "There will be some issuance this year of core climate bonds. As well as that, the Australian government could issue climate bonds for the broadband network." Climate-themed bonds provide a strong opportunity for Australian asset ...

Former SA Premier Rann appointed Low Carbon Australia Chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... was also South Australia's minister for sustainability and climate change from 2006 until 2001. The South Australian government passed Australia's first climate change legislation under his leadership, and earlier this year Rann was appointed by former ...

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... pricing mechanism's launch draws nearer. "There's a certain amount of fear out there," he said. "They think a change of government is going to take care of the price impacts [of electricity], but they're in for a big shock if they expect that, because ...

Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... operational costs, Phillips said. Liable entities will have to offset their carbon emissions by purchasing permits from the government to cover their emissions during the fixed price period. Thereafter, liable entities can purchase or generate or trade ...

Plantic opens expanded bioplastics facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Change, opened Plantic's Altona facilities and in a speech, noted the innovation. "Plantic Technologies was born out of a Government-funded research project in 2000 which invited the clean technology industry to collaboratively find a solution to alternative ...