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Connecting off-grid communities with renewable tech: AllGrid Energy

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... implementing a strategy to place solar panel and battery storage systems in remote, off-grid Indigenous communities in Australia. AllGrid Energy, which launched last year as a partnership between DICE Australia and CIH Solar, has rolled out The Oasis ...

Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership to offer director program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership (CISL) is offering a non-executive director programme for the first time in Melbourne next year, as an extension of its sustainability training programmes for corporate executives. Terence ...

BHP Billiton ESG downgrade prompts asset owner questions: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... investment call on BHP Billiton, which is a significant component of the ASX. "We're speaking to 30 asset owners in Australia and NZ alone and in some cases, the investment strategies are excluding red flagged companies, and excluding companies that ...

Opportunities in the Emissions Reduction Fund for the waste industry

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
In the run up to the upcoming fourth auction for the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF), the Clean Energy Regulator has encouraged the registration of waste management projects for participation in future auctions. Michelle Bruce, manager at the Clean Energy ...

Oliver Yates to step down as Clean Energy Finance Corporation CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... sector. With the Paris agreement to limit the rise in global temperatures to below two degrees Celsius becoming binding, Australia's clean energy investment market will continue to accelerate, requiring us to run even faster." Yates acknowledged the ...

ACSI issues vote warning to remaining all-male ASX boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has informed ASX-listed companies without female directors that they will face votes against sitting directors in 2017. Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO In 2015, ACSI adopted a target for women to comprise ...

ARENA grants $18m to Queensland combined wind, solar, storage project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... such as large-scale battery and regional pumped hydro storage," ARENA said. "Big Kennedy could meet most of Northern Australia's growing demand for electricity and provide as much as 20% of new build capacity for Australia's 2020 renewable energy target," ...

VicSuper publishes 2016 annual report using IR, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... Integrated Reporting (IR) framework for the third year in a row. The fund acknowledged significant market volatility both in Australia and overseas," affecting fund performances, but noted that most investment options achieved "above-median returns" ...

CEFC, Commonwealth Bank launch energy efficient finance program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... Businesses are showing interest in using energy efficient vehicles or equipment. The CEFC cites the CommBank Asset Financing Australia (AFA) Index Report 2016, conducted by East & Partners, which shows that out of a survey of more than 800 businesses ...

Ethical Investment Week to bust the ethical investment return myth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... sponsored by the Ethical Advisers Co-Operative. Events will take place in four states - Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, said Louise Edkins, Ethical Advisers' Co-op director and director of Ethical Investment Advisers. "There ...