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Cities provide essential collaboration: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Melbourne and Sydney are members of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. "Cities have told us that a third of the climate action they've delivered has been a result of collaboration," Watts said. "I think that really tells you the value of it. Above ...

Origin Energy endorses We Mean Business commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
Origin Energy has endorsed all seven of the the CDP/We Mean Business climate leadership platform commitments. James Day, director, CDP Australia and New Zealand The seven CDP/We Mean Business 'Commit to Action' climate leadership commitments are benchmarks ...

PRI active on climate change, tax avoidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... COP 21 as well as exchanging information and innovations amongst themselves. "We have the Investor Platform on Climate Action, and that's one way that we and other groups are collecting what investors are doing," she said. "We've been trying through ...

IGCC, peers launch Investor Platform for Climate Actions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and other international climate change-related groups have launched an online platform that tracks global investors' actions on climate change. The Investor Platform for Climate Actions will track activities ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... limited and stalled at the moment, but a state, territory or provincial level, there are enormous amounts of positive climate action taking place." Coalescing around a common, broad platform allows for more coherent communication. "Together with the ...

Local Government Super top AODP index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... "regular announcements by carbon owners on carbon-risk management," "greater acknowledgment of asset owners' role in climate action by politicians and economic agencies," and "greater commitments (and some action) by leading asset owners". However, the ...

CDP recognise ASX companies for climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Six Australian companies have been named to CDP's Climate Performance Leadership Index 2014. CDP selected 187 companies globally that exhibit leadership through action to mitigate climate change, and found that as an index, those companies outperform ...

IGCC calls on PM to retain Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
(Ed note: updates substantially with comment from Nathan Fabian of IGCC) The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has published an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, urging the federal government to maintain its previous support for the Renewable ...

World's multilateral banks to continue focus on climate finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... consequences of climate change," said Jonathan Taylor, European Investment Bank vice president responsible for climate action. "As the EU bank we share the commitment of other multilateral development banks to enabling climate related investment in developing ...

NY's EIC on residential, commercial property energy upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... values and benefits of clean energy (energy efficiency) with the values and goals of the specific community (e.g. Climate Action Plan, Energy reduction targets, etc.) we are working in. An example of how this works is in the Town of Bedford (our pilot ...