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Cement companies need to "more than double" emissions reductions: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... reduction targets, but only three of these meet a 2-degrees goal. CDP notes that cement is "the second most polluting industrial sector and is used in concrete, which after water is the most consumed product in the world," while the built environment ...

$12.5 million ARENA initiative to fund distributed energy resources projects, studies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... technologies such as rooftop solar, home batteries, inverters, controllable loads (both in the home and at commercial and industrial facilities), electric vehicle charging points, smart appliances and systems (such as fridges, air conditioning systems ...

NAB issues Australian residential mortgage-backed bond with green tranche

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... trajectory, aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to no more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels, the CEFC noted. This is not the first time that NAB has issued securitisation with a green tranche - in 2016, NAB ...

Green bond issuance from China reached US$37.1 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... international definitions, and US$6.01 billion was Climate Bonds Certified, including the US$2.15 billion debut green bond from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) the worlds' biggest bank. The largest cumulative issuer in the year was China ...

Willis Towers Watsons joins Climate Bonds Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... in ensuring that green debt instruments become integrated in corporate strategies and portfolios across a range of industrial sectors globally," said Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative. "As Climate Bonds works to promote engagement of the investment ...

SSGA Global Index Plus Trust to exclude tobacco, controversial weapons

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... we did do, we divested. It's a couple of percentage points.... "For controversial weapons, you would be buying other industrial stocks. There's no exact way to synthesise the exposure to either tobacco or controversial weapons, but there are other risk ...

Australia/NZ continue to top the ranks in GRESB 2017 real estate review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... Within Australia and New Zealand, Dexus Office Trust, Vicinity Centres Direct Portfolio, and Frasers Logistics and Industrial Trust were named sector leaders.

Pauline Vamos outlines initial priorities as CEO of Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... If you've got less and less people working full time, what are the implications there? When they talk about the next industrial revolution, let's start having those conversations now." Vamos is the former CEO of the Association of Superannuation Funds ...

Pollinate Energy to open operations in fifth city - Kanpur

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... lighting to people in India's urban slums, will open operations in its fifth city, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Kanpur is an industrial city of 3 million people, where over 85% of the communities surveyed live without or with partial electricity, over 75% ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund, Victorian government to spread word on EUAs to SMEs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... Bocskay said. "We saw that solar was a product with phenomenal uptake in residential, with interest in commercial and industrial, but the economics weren't quite making sense, primarily because the cost of solar was relatively high and the energy prices ...