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Australian Ethical Investment engages on sustainability of meat

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... investors engaging with 16 multinational food companies over concerns of material risks posed by industrial animal production. Ella McKinley, ethics analyst, Australian Ethical Investment The Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR) initiative ...

Teachers Mutual Bank installs solar panels, LED lights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... lending to, or investing in, "large scale greenhouse gas polluting activities (from fossil fuel exploration, extraction, production and use)," according to Teachers Mutual Bank. The Debt Issuance Program was the first cash product to receive RIAA cer ...

Impax Asset Management analyses environmental impact of portfolio

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... different investors in impact analysis," Jenkyn-Jones said. A car producer can have good carbon footprint due to efficient production, whereas a solar panel producer could have a high carbon footprint because of energy intensive production, but that ...

Investors have "no place to hide" from climate change impacts: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... as well as opportunity for some portfolios. BlackRock points to four main trends - technological advances in power production, storage and consumption that are undermining existing business models; regulatory efforts focused on curbing carbon emissions ...

ARENA funds Southern Oil Refining biofuel lab pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... project, costing AU$$5.4 million and is scheduled for completion in March 2019. There is "clear potential" for biofuel production and refining in Australia, said Ivor Frischknecht, ARENA CEO. "Our agricultural industries have an abundance of plant waste ...

Australia to implement EITI standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... oil, gas and mining sectors companies, together with other information on licences, contracts, beneficial ownership, production and exports in accordance with the 2016 EITI Standard," EITI said on its website. See Also: Canada adopts mining payment regime ...

ARENA providing funding support for bio-energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... bio-energy project in Queensland. Renewable Developments Australia (RDA) is building a business case for a bio-ethanol production facility at Pentland, near Charters Towers in North Queensland. "The plant is designed to produce up to 350 million litres ...

New Forests launches ESG investment performance framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... and highlighted as part of that report that more than 473,000 hectares of certified forest area, 95% certified timber production, and more than one-third of New Forests' 765,000 hectares of investments are being managed for conservation and as protected ...

Australian grain industry poised for export gains: ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... preparing for it." Under an aggressive growth scenario, the report states that "Australia would need to increase wheat production by 20% from 25 to 30 million tonnes over the next 14 years to meet that demand. "Agriculture is changing more rapidly now ...

ARENA allocates funds for biomass research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... capture, wood pelletisation (where forestry plantation waste is converted into pellets that can be burned as fuel) the production of biofuels, the CEFC said.