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Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Finance Corporation now expects project developers, and banks who finance them, to apply no net loss approaches to biodiversity impact. While the experience of calculating, mitigating, offsetting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions is a useful model ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... energy and utilities team and a solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques. She is a member of the Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Advisory Board and a director of the Carbon Market Institute, and a member of the board of trustees at the Sustainable ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... each government, we are using MSCI ESG Sovereign Ratings. On the environmental side, they're looking at things like biodiversity, land use, climate change and vulnerability to climate change, air pollution, energy security, water security, waste management ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... are taking steps to fully integrate waste management, reÂsource efficiency and water issues, yet issues such as biodiversity and climate change are not equally considered." Advancing corporate sustainability will get an airing at this month's UN Conference ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... April/May 2012. The four new topics are greenhouse gas emissions, occupational health and safety, corruption, and biodiversity. Other topics are under discussion and will be announced later this year. Q: You mentioned that there are multiple paths within ...

Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... a carbon abatement (which is credited under the CFI), as well as benefits which flow to Indigenous peoples and/or biodiversity in the project area. It is proposed that these 'co- benefits ' will be shown as additional information in the CFI Registrar. ...

NAB endorses natural capital declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... economic valuing of ecosystem services and the natural environment - that is, recognising impact and dependency on biodiversity and ecosystem services and accounting for them within traditional business frameworks and the way we do business. This is ...

Miners, stakeholders agree to actions in Upper Hunter Valley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... meet the needs of the region, such that the mines are integrated with the landscape, "whether that is agriculture, biodiversity forestry, housing development or other land uses," the report said. The NSW government is currently developing a land use ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Arthur Robinson. "In addition, where it is a condition of the mining approval that the mine operator must provide biodiversity offsets, if the offset takes the form of revegetation, that is also capable of generating CFI credits." Anderson also pointed ...

R. M. Williams Agricultural Holdings to fund NT property conservation with carbon rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... investors around the country will be watching this exciting pilot project for its innovative approach to conservation and biodiversity. They'll be looking to see how R.M.Williams Agricultural Holdings goes about the business of generating biodiverse ...