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CEFC provides $20m loan facility to Carnegie Wave Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Carnegie CEO and managing director. "With our wave energy resource and technology capabilities particularly in the offshore oil and gas industries we believe there is significant potential for Australia to be a leader in this field which can create new ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... their invested companies, Ambachtsheer said. "You have started to see in North America, for example, more engagement with oil and gas companies about using capital to look for more oil reserves," she explained. "They're asking companies about it, and ...

350.org Australia issues ASX200 fossil fuel divestment study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
Institutional investment portfolios containing coal, oil and gas companies "risk lower returns in the long run while portfolios avoiding these companies can provide competitive returns," according to a report published by The Australia Institute in ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... UCA Funds Management has developed a fossil fuel policy that rules out future investments in thermal coal, unconventional oil such as shale and deep water drilling and in companies that extract gas through fracking. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ...

IGCC joins world peers in voicing fugitive methane concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... (IGCC) has joined international investors groups that are expressing concern about fugitive methane leaks and are calling on oil and gas companies to adopt universal implementation of best practices to prevent venting of natural gas into the atmosphere. ...

PRI, GRESB agree to closer collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... the PRI's US network. Prior to her hire, Mahida worked as part of the environmental, health and safety team at Hess, a US oil and gas company. She has also been vice president of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), managing their US operations, and ...

Paladin Energy, Swala Energy join EITI Supporting Companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Australian companies Paladin Energy and Swala Energy and seven other oil, mining and gas companies have recently joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as supporting companies. According to the EITI, 85 companies around the ...

CDP: companies unaware of deforestation supply chain risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... responded to a call for disclosure on their exposures to deforestation risk through use of five agricultural commodities - palm oil, soy, biofuels, timber, and cattle products. Those five commodities are responsible for most deforestation, CDP said. ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Australian investors have joined a group of 70 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 ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Billiton given the fact that it is the world's largest resource company with significant holdings in thermal coal and shale oil assets. "We heard that Ian Dunlop was going to nominate for the board," said Trevor Thomas, managing director of Ethinvest. ...