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Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  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 in line with the ...

AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... being too high for a company of that size and complexity, for example," she said. "It also be a case where short term incentives are aligned withrdles that we don't see as appropriate, or a case where short term t incentives are paid when it's a safety ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... supply chain procurement strategies, and also notes that participating CDP Supply Chain members are increasingly using incentives to encourage suppliers. "In 2011, 62% of respondents reported having a policy that recognizes or rewards suppliers that ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... remuneration because of "the orthodoxy that you have to pay the most to get the best, and then you have that level of incentives locked in." "CEOs have an obligation to produce a healthy productive workplace for employees, and make distributions for ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 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 ...

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 ...