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Net Balance Foundation joins CitySwitch program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... organisations to make informed decisions about energy efficiency. Viatek, a technology solutions provider to regional businesses in NSW and Victoria, Warragul branch is CitySwitch's first signatory since the program expansion. "We are extremely pleased ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... sustainability." Greenfleet has also made its first land purchase to create a new forest, near West Wyalong in New South Wales, alongside NSW state forest, with 900 hectares suitable for direct-seeding.

Clean Energy Finance Corporation makes first investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... AU$37.5 million in senior debt finance for the construction and operation of the Taralga Wind Farm, 45 km north of Goulburn, NSW. CEFC are participating in the international consortium that is providing approximately AU$280 million for the project, along ...

Algae.Tec signs agreement with Macquarie Generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... reusing carbon emissions and providing the Hunter region with a locally produced green fuel source," said Chris Hartcher, NSW Energy Minister. Bayswater uses approximately 7.5 million tonnes of coal per year and delivers power to eastern Australia, from ...

Westpac, CBA, Benevolent Society launch social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... years. The service is aimed at reducing the number of family breakdowns and the number of children placed in foster care in NSW. The NSW government announced its intention to develop this SBB with Westpac, CBA and the Benevolent Society last year, and ...

NGS Super allocates to NSW social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... program is aimed at delivering improved social outcome and reduced government costs. The families will be referred from the NSW Family and Community Services and have children aged six or younger that are considered at-risk. The Benevolent Society will ...

Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... that fossil fuel investments account for about 3% of the AU$85bn Future Fund. She cited recent votes by the Uniting Church of NSW & ACT to divest their investments in coal and coal seam gas as models for the Future Fund as well as other moves by international ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... long-term investors are mindful of, and need to be mindful of, because it changes the rules of the game. For example, the State of NSW putting in a two kilometre exclusion zone around populated areas saw CSG developments that were likely to go ahead ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Gales as chief executive officer. Gales will start on 2April and comes to SEFA having formerly worked as a director at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and has also worked in NSW Treasury, in venture capital in the US and UK, and in ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Meteorology, with other government agencies. The framework was also peer reviewed and piloted across several sites in central NSW, the feedback of which was used to shape up the final form of the framework." The first phase of the MCA Water Accounting ...