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New Forests releases 2013 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... we are developing a research effort that may make input in to the forest practice code, to make sure they're driven by science and empirical evidence. In other areas, it means going down to the asset level, asking property managers what the key conservation ...

WBCSD named supporter of Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... recommendations will be based on WBCDS's Natural Capital work program and toolkit, and the Action2020 platform, which "sets a science-based agenda for business to develop scalable solutions to address the urgent needs of the environment and society," ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... investment in the chemical industry, said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative CEO. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds CEO "The latest science shows that carbon emissions in industrialized countries will need to drop by at least 90% by 2050 in order to avoid ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
The Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIICCSRTE) has released two draft bills to implement the changes required to bring forward the move to the flexible emissions trading scheme (ETS) carbon ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... providing investors with a scope to tilt towards lower-carbon assets. The combination of growing consensus around climate science, the potential for tighter carbon regulation and concomitant economic impacts and the resulting lower-carbon world means ...

Graham Dooley new president of Australian Water Association

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Adelaide. Dooley takes over from Lucia Cade who completed her two-year term as AWA president. Dooley holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Public Administration from The American ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... corporations to discuss climate change impacts, adaptation and corporate strategy. The report found that while climate change science predicts a future in which there are more extreme weather events and brought on by warmer global temperatures and that ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... and ongoing monitoring process of CSG is not optimal for either responding to community concerns or for evaluating the science behind the potential risks. "Both state and federal governments have recognised that the regulatory framework was not satisfying ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... enterprise at the University of Michigan and a participant in the symposium. "I will say, you can be agnostic about the science of climate change, and that is the way that many companies are looking at it, if they have the latitude to shift." Hoffman ...

University of Sydney opens Centre for Carbon, Water and Food

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... approach. The Centre for Carbon, Water and Food has been founded as a response to a recommendation from the Prime Minister's Science Engineering and Innovation Council, which said in 2010 that national priority be given to understanding and mapping connections ...