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Positive outlook for impact future: Conscious Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... including affordable housing, and environmental infrastructure. "Our typical model is to partner with charities and some commercial enterprises to acquire property that they can manage to make impact," Tominc said. "We really developed it in response ...

Green loans in "nascent" stage: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... New Zealand's power utility Contact Energy, in August 2017 followed by Macquarie Group in mid-2018 and Investa Commercial Property Fund (ICPF) in early 2019. The report notes that other green loans have followed involving major banks, property and ...

Super fund ESG option tops charts with investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Energy, Nippon Prologis REIT, Kilroy Realty Corp, Plug Power, Ballard Power Systems, Douglas Emmett, and Mapletree Commercial Trust. "The Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) option was launched in 2012 to provide members an option to invest in companies ...

ARENA, CEFC changes open door to CCS, hydrogen investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
The federal government will extend a fresh $1.62 billion to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to invest, and will change the legislative remit of ARENA and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) towards investing in carbon capture ...

IGCC CEO appointed to Greater Sydney Commission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... precinct." In appointing Herd, Roberts cited her career experience in climate change advocacy, development and delivery of commercial climate change finance and investment solutions. The commission also appointed Jackie Taranto as economic commissioner. ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Environmental markets project developer and investor GreenCollar has secured funding for a series of carbon farming projects under the Queensland Government's $500M Land Restoration Fund (LRF). The approved projects will generate an estimated value ...

AAIB, Amundi launch climate investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... increased typhoons and extreme precipitation leading to floods present a significant threat to Asia and disruption of its commercial activities. "There is a vital need for investors to commit in climate-aligned ways to avoid losses from the materialization ...

Australian business environment amongst world's most resilient: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... resilience, but is exposed to a number of risks, including cyber risk, oil intensity and corporate governance, according to commercial insurer FM Global. Lynette Schultheis, operations manager, FM Global Australia FM Global provides an annual assessment ...

ARENA allocates $2.17m to Alice Springs grid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... with batteries aggregated and controlled to provide voltage support to the network; tariff reforms to investigate the commercial and other incentives required to encourage a change in consumer behaviour to facilitate higher uptake of household batteries ...

Sefa to increase financing to social enterprises and build resilience

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... investment readiness," she said. "That's also part of building back better - we have the elements of governance, advocacy, commercial acumen and partnerships that we think purpose driven organisations can benefit from." The decisions pertaining to credit ...