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Investors make 2012 climate change investment commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
The Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a collaborative group of more than 100 institutional investors managing nearly US$10tr, has agreed to an agenda that will further integrate climate risks and opportunities into investment portfolios and processes ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... for companies and investors in 2012, with a concurrent interest in increased investment in assets to mitigate and adapt climate change, according to sustainability professionals. Executive remuneration will continue to be a topic of engagement, but the ...

Highlights of a year in The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... analysis Investors integrating ESG into decisions have "an edge" Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors Climate change issues increasingly integrated into investment decisions

CDP: U.S. farmers' GHG disclosures and management varied

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The agricultural sector will be heavily impacted by effects of climate change, but a study of U.S. suppliers of tomatoes and potatoes shows a widely diverging capability to report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and identify areas of successful emissions ...

Durban agreements to impact Australia's ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Although the multi-country climate change talks in Durban failed to yield a comprehensive treaty, the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) did result in extensions to programs that ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... serves to implement certain national 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 ...

NAB endorses natural capital declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... ecosystem services resulting from those assets. Ecosystem goods and services "constitute food, fiber, water, health, energy, climate security and other essential services for everyone," according to the declaration. The declaration will be officially ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... investment incentives in the energy sector, to induce Australian companies and households to internalise the costs of climate change," the report notes. Under BREE's projections, demand for electricity will increase by nearly 42% to 2035, with gross ...

Wesfarmers recognised at Australian Sustainability Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Worldwide was recognised for its innovative new mosquito trap technology. Nathan Fabian, CEO of the Investor Group on Climate Change, was named the first recipient of the Erik Mather Sustainability Champion award. Eds note: The Sustainability Report ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... collaboration and engagement with relevant governments and stakeholders, as well as developing deeper analysis on the impacts of climate change policy in terms of competitiveness and local decision making. Understanding the impacts on sub-sectors would ...