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Insurer Catlin Group sponsors survey of global coral reefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... couple of seconds," said Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. "We're using a whole range of images to count the coral at the bottom - it's an audit of the amount of coral at the barrier ...

Foresters Community Finance starts social entrepreneur fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... enterprise mission." The fund was launched in Brisbane by Allan English, founder of ASX listed Silver Chef and the 2012 Queensland Community Philanthropist of the Year. See Also: Foresters finances Eating Disorders Victoria service Foresters launches ...

New Forests, CEFC agreement on bioenergy, biofuel finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... biodiesel or syngas. New Forest has forestry assets including 375,000 hectares of land and timber plantation assets in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia and Timberlink Australia, with two softwood ...

CEFC provides $75 million to Energy Developments Limited

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... generate energy from waste coal mine gas and landfill gas and remote hybrid renewables projects. CEFC CEO Oliver Yates Queensland-based EDL specialises in systems to capture waste coal mine gas and landfill gas and turn it into electricity. "Fugitive ...

CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Australia, although it says in the study that collaborative approaches have worked in Ontario Canada, California and in Queensland. The overseas experience cited in the paper builds the CEFC's case that demand management can reduce business and residential ...

LUCRF Community Partnership Trust opens in South Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... government and major donors." Since 2010, LUCRF has made 19 grants to 17 community groups in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, to groups including Doxa Youth Foundation's after school program in Bendigo, Victoria and the Upper Yarra Community ...

Algae.Tec signs agreement with Macquarie Generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... approximately 7.5 million tonnes of coal per year and delivers power to eastern Australia, from South Australia to Northern Queensland. The algae in the Algae.Tec facility will feed on "waste" carbon dioxide emitted by the power station and the resulting ...

Philanthropy Australia rolling out impact investing program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... members about impact investment, with a focus on building knowledge and awareness in its first year. Fiona Maxwell, Queensland manager at Philanthropy Australia "PA has introduced a range of new programs in the last six months, and one those is around ...

Community Sector Banking to extend microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Additional government funding will allow Community Sector Banking to extend loans to hundreds more people in Queensland and northern New South Wales, according to Peter Quarmby, Community Sector Banking's executive director. Peter Quarmby, Community ...

Government allocates additional funds for microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... in microfinance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in urban and remote areas in the Kimberley and South East Queensland. "With more than 2.6 million Australians classified as fully or severely financially excluded, there is a compelling argument ...