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CEFC, NAB launch $120m green finance fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... will also focus on financing purchases of equipment such as variable speed pumps for irrigation purposes, upgrades to industrial and commercial refrigeration, investments in biogas, bio-digesters, micro turbines, and fuel switching and processes. The ...

Climate change impacts on investments "inevitable": Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... 2050, using four potential change scenarios and four climate risk factors - a rise in global temperature above pre-industrial era temperatures of 2C, 3C and two 4C scenarios, with different levels of potential physical impacts, Mercer said. In addition ...

Abbot Point Port Expansion leads controversy list: RepRisk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... "The projects are based in North and South America, Eurasia, Asia and Australia, and span the extractive, leisure, industrial transportation and utility sectors," RepRisk said. "Out of the ten projects ranked in the MCP Report 2014, five are related ...

South Australia one step closer to building upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Adelaide City Council has the greatest number of properties that could be eligible for BUF, with over 3,000 commercial and industrial properties, mainly commercial office and retail buildings. "According to the report, other council areas with significant ...

Mirvac reports on first year of new sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... aim to generate more water and energy than it uses. This year, the company reduced carbon intensity of its office and industrial properties by 17.68%, but saw energy use per square metre rise from 0.31 GJ/m2 to 0.39 GJ/m2, a 26.18% increase over 2013. ...

LGS hires Scott Armstrong as property portfolio manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... will manage LGS' Local Government Property Fund (LGPF), an unlisted fund comprised of nine NSW commercial, retail and industrial property assets - five office buildings, three retail centres and one industrial estate. LGPF was worth AU$486 million in ...

CSIRO hire Larry Marshall as chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has hired Dr Larry Marshall as its new chief executive. Larry Marshall, incoming chief executive of CSIRO Marshall is currently the managing director of Southern Cross Venture ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... in emissions. Then we can use the carbon-free electricity to replace petrol in cars, and gas in buildings and some industrial processes." The report uses modelling from the CSIRO and the Victoria University Centre for Policy Studies, using the same tools ...

Business begins unwinding of carbon tax arrangements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... stimulates economic development of Aboriginal lands. "Aboriginal carbon projects will likely have to compete with other industrial projects to sell credits in an ERF or seek deals in the voluntary market," he said. "Either way the costs of production ...

GRI undergoing governance process to become standard setter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... except for the due process oversight committee would have the regional diversity and diversity of interest groups - industrial groups, business, investors, to ensure that GRI maintains the multi-stakeholder processes at its centre," Whitaker noted. Last ...