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Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... growth. "The RET and carbon pricing are aimed at creating a fundamental shift in consumption, in addition to investment incentives in the energy sector, to induce Australian companies and households to internalise the costs of climate change," the report ...

Low Carbon Australia relaunches Carbon Offset Guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... includes information about the introduction of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) to the Australian market. CFI provides incentives to landholders, farmers and forest growers incentives for undertaking land sector abatement projects. CFI will generate ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... particular, it's quite apparent that there is a significant amount of de-risking of executive pay and putting short term incentives on personal metrics things that you'd expect would be part of an executive's job description. These short term bonuses ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... facilitate institutional investors in allocating capital towards climate change solutions, including appropriate government incentives to compensate for heightened risk and sufficient scale of technology deployment. The report also emphasises that long-term ...

CDP finds 68% of global corporates embed climate change strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... building fabric, building services and processes, low carbon energy installations and staff behavioural change. Employee incentives to reduce emissions are now offered by 65% of companies, compared with 49% in 2010. Additionally, 74% of Global 500 respondents ...

Companies increasing remuneration report transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... a criteria, what are the [key performance indicators] that are used in regards to remuneration, what the short term incentives are, etc. People have been making an effort to make that more clear in their reports, which we encourage them to do." Although ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change and also creates financial incentives to undertake emission avoidance and sequestration offset projects and increase carbon abatement consistent with the ...

Carbon price package could yield greater than expected reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... structure/supply - whether the structure of a given market enhances or prevents capturing opportunities. The paper names the split incentives nature of the real estate market between the owner and the tenant as one example of how structure puts up a ...

Retailers could save $1bn pa with investment in energy efficiency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... non-critical to the business. ClimateWorks also cites high transaction costs due to the fragmented nature of the sector; split incentives in which capital investments made by the owner to improve energy efficiency will be recouped in part by the tenant ...

Investor Profile: Colonial First State Global Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... other thing I'd mention is that as a lot of people keep saying, ESG are often longer term issues. There are different incentives and structures in place in the investment world which can often create barriers to constrain investors' focus on the longer ...