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IGCC welcomes CCA draft report on emissions targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) welcomes the "pragmatic assessment" of the Climate Change Authority (CCA) draft report, but says it raises questions of how Australia will achieve higher emissions reductions. In its draft report into caps ...

City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... us is that the national conversation is really confusing - they don't want to hear about philosophical arguments about climate change, what they want to know is how [the EUA] works, what it costs, when the return on investment appears, and what is the ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... global investors calling on the world's top oil and gas, coal and electric power companies to assess the financial risks of climate change to their business. The Carbon Asset Risk (CAR) initiative, coordinated by Ceres and the Carbon Tracker Initiative ...

DLA Piper: climate change legal risk in property development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
State legislation requiring local municipal bodies to take climate change into account when considering property development proposals are leading to unexpected and unpredictable outcomes that expose companies and government authorities to legal risk ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Green bonds could potentially be issued to finance capital investment in the chemical industry, said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative CEO. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds CEO "The latest science shows that carbon emissions in industrialized countries ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... 2015, they will need to surrender carbon units to cover their final 2013/14 emissions liability." Elisa de Wit, head of climate change at Norton Rose, also saw the timing as the main challenge, with complications to contracts if the CPM is repealed later ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ethinvest is supporting a campaign to have climate advocate Ian Dunlop appointed to the BHP Board at its November AGM. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director Ethinvest, an investment advisory firm founded on ethical investment principles, is supporting ...

Property developers advised to factor in climate change risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Australian property developers should start factoring in climate change impacts immediately or face significant financial risk, according to Net Balance. "While the local government have understood climate risk and opportunity for some time, the property ...

VicSuper, bankmecu, Pacific Hydro join Future Economy Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... developed The Future Economy Group, and they say their mission is to quantify how vulnerable Victoria's economy is to climate change and resource scarcity and then to advocate for policies and actions to transition to "a strong and sustainable economy ...

LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... governance (ESG) analysis into the selection process, including a specific allocation of up to 15% invested in "green" or climate themed bonds. Currently, LGS holds around $20 million in green bonds, LGS told The Sustainability Report. Earlier this year ...