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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 ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... mechanism (CPM) face uncertainty over their compliance and potential pricing arrangements if the government's proposed legislation to repeal the price on carbon is not passed by July 2014. Elisa de Wit, partner, Norton Rose Fulbright This week, the Liberal ...

Publish What You Pay to take case to new government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Claire Spoors, coordinator, Publish What You Pay Australia. "Obviously, the US and Europe have introduced the kinds of legislation we wish to see in Australia when it comes to payment disclosure, and Canada has announced that they will bring in payments ...

Corporate governance guidelines on agenda ahead of AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... company's remuneration report has received a 'no' vote of 25% or more at two consecutive annual general meetings under the legislation. If a majority of shareholders then vote in favor of getting rid of the board, directors will face fresh elections ...

EY: Businesses need long term carbon policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... plan means that companies are reluctant to make more than the minimum investment required to comply with existing legislation, said Mathew Nelson, EY climate change and sustainability leader. "There is no question that the uncertainty is making a difference ...

WWF: ETS repeal to reduce renewable energy, increase prices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... a fixed price period, currently priced at AU$24.15/tonne of CO2 emissions. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has proposed legislation that would bring back the transition to a flexible market-based emissions trading scheme (ETS) to 1 July 2014. Australia is ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... lower amount of 6.25% instead of the 12.5% obviously applies to the first year," de Wit said. As proposed in the draft legislation, liable entities will be able to use eligible international emissions units - including European Union Allowances (EUAs) ...

Mandatory GHG disclosures for British listed companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... and indirect emissions categories of ISO16064-1, according to guidance from the British government accompanying the legislation's passage. Companies will not have to report on scope 3 emissions, "However, you should consider reporting these separately ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... time. Either the government will have to respond very quickly to the report, or they're going to have to work off the legislation at the moment for the caps, which has a long term trajectory of 5% by 2020. That's potentially doable, but in terms of the ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... cap on pollution and it helps to manage/insure that targets are actually met." Under the current Clean Energy Future legislation, Australia's carbon pricing mechanism will be a fixed price of $23/tonne of CO2 emissions generated by liable entities until ...