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University of Sydney opens Centre for Carbon, Water and Food

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Innovation Council, which said in 2010 that national priority be given to understanding and mapping connections between energy, water, carbon, climate, agriculture, ecosystems, the economy and society to ensure Australia's future food security and to ...

Net Balance: financial, shared value performance related

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... scores over the five years of analysis include Wesfarmers, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Transurban, NAB, ANZ, Stockland, Origin Energy, AGL Energy, IAG, Santos and Bluescope Steel. See Also: Net Balance launches research and development institute

Low Carbon Australia finances Warrnambool lighting project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia (LCAL) will partly finance an energy efficient street lighting project in Victoria that will cut energy use and costs in six councils. LCAL will provide slightly more than 50% of the Warrnambool City Council's AU$872,500 commitment ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... 10% of the institution's overall commitments for the year. About 70% of IFC's investments in the power sector involved energy efficiency and renewable energy. IFC expects to double its climate-related investments to roughly US$3 billion per year by F ...

AMP Capital invests in North American wind farm portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... US$100 million with Capistrano Wind Partners, a developer, owner and operator of a diversified portfolio of large-scale wind energy projects in North America. Capistrano Wind Partners was formed last year by Edison Mission Energy (EME), TIAA-CREF and ...

Low Carbon Australia forms alliance with Wiley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Carbon Australia (LCAL) has formed an alliance with engineering and construction company Wiley to develop systems to improve energy efficiency and productivity for food and meat processing companies. Meg McDonald, Low Carbon Australia CEO The alliance ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Legal practice Norton Rose has launched Clean Energy Law in Australia, an online subscription service that provides commentary on commonwealth laws covering the clean energy industry. Elisa de Wit Norton Rose has also published a book of the same name ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... purest access to sustainability themes, minus the volatility of listed assets. Mercer labeled themes including alternative energy, energy efficiency, water infrastructure and technologies, pollution control, waste management, environmental support services ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... difference in the sustainable actions of companies and their suppliers highlights a missed opportunity for suppliers to reduce energy costs and risks. The 61% of suppliers that failed to provide information through CDP are an even greater concern since ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... research projections on resource constraints and determined that resource constraints in the best case scenario will increase energy and commodity prices over the next century and at worse could create an uncertain and unstable economy. "All of the scenarios ...