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CEFC provides $75 million to Energy Developments Limited

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will provide AU$75 million in financing to Energy Developments Limited (EDL) for investment in projects to generate energy from waste coal mine gas and landfill gas and remote hybrid renewables projects. CEFC ...

Water risks threaten growth of metals, mining companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Water risks are a threat to growth for the largest companies in the metals and mining sector, and those companies that manage water strategically are better financial performers, according to a report from CDP and Eurizon Capital. Fifty-seven of the ...

UCA Funds Management holds first investor briefing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... to gain extra franking credits from non-resident institutions that can't use them. The Australian equities portfolio is a high-conviction portfolio with a concentrated list of companies - anywhere between 20-40 companies, Baster said. UCA Funds Management ...

CDP, CDSB, IIIRC ally to promote natural capital reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Reporting Framework, which was developed by CDSB, a CDP special project. "CDP operates on the principle that capital markets need high quality information on corporate impacts on carbon, water and forests," said Paul Simpson, CDP's chief executive officer. ...

RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... yet when we see surveys of the public asking questions such as, where would you like your super to be invested, there is a high response rates from the public saying 'we want our money invested in line with our values.' The onus is on us to join the ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Eliminating the fossil fuel sector from a global benchmark index can yield a small positive return effect with low tracking error, according to analysis by Impax Asset Management. Impax created model equity portfolios structured around fossil fuel divestment ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Greenfleet, a reforestation not-for-profit, has had two of its reforestation projects registered under the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). Greenfleet used the CFI's Sequestration: Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
There is US$364 billion of climate-themed bonds outstanding in 2013, with issuance of new climate-themed bonds up 25% in 2012, according to a report by the Climate Bonds Initiative and the HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence. Sean Kidney The report ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
A majority of Australian businesses would prefer to see a floating price emissions trading scheme as opposed to the current fixed price regime, according to a survey by Businesses for a Clean Economy. Jennifer Lauber-Patterson Businesses for a Clean ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... companies' disclosure of LHR standards as related to direct employees, measuring disclosure across LHR indicators, finding high levels of reporting into prohibition of discrimination and health and safety and low levels of disclosure of other LHR standards. ...