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Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power offer biogas services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Quantum Power and its clients to enable these biogas projects to proceed, providing up front finance for the project implementation period, during construction through commissioning, helping overcome a financial barrier which has often prevented such ...

ClimateWorks Australia name Hill, Ridout to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... catalyse action to substantially reduce Australia's greenhouse emissions, through research and collaboration to drive implementation," ClimateWorks said.

Solomon Islands implement EITI payment disclosure standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Islands has established Solomon Islands Extractive Industries National Stakeholder Group (SIEINSG) that will oversee implementation of the EITI. According to EITI, civil society organisations in the Solomon Islands are "already engaged and campaigning ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... potential developers are also tackling the regulations surrounding the creation of methodologies as well as their implementation and monitoring structures. No one disputes that the CFI must have rigorous monitoring processes to assure that the claims ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... responsibility initiative with more than 7,000 corporate signatories from 135 countries, released the results of its 2011 implementation survey. The survey was completed by more than 1300 signatories, and 49% of signatories reported that their sustainability ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... externalities" Paradice said, such as the social and economic value of renewable energy technology development and implementation. The CEFC's role will be to provide funding and financing to mitigate against some of the risks and bring in the private ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... organisations need to develop capabilities that capture external knowledge, generate new ideas and go ahead with their implementation. "These capabilities require organization designs and structure that legitimize such decisions, reward coordination ...

CFSGAM reports top quartile performance in UNPRI principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... that they had embedded the PRI principles into its balanced scorecard for the business, and that they consider implementation of the PRI as part of performance measurement and key performance indicators for employees. CFSGAM noted that the chief investment ...

IIGCC calls for reform to EU Emissions Trading Scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... plan to define and implement a one-off set-aside of carbon credits in order to remove systemic oversupply; and the implementation of a review process to consider unforseen economic circumstances. Carbon credit prices have fallen because of an oversupply ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... review the current system. The public comment period results and internal discussions recommend a system where the implementation of "materiality principle" and other reporting principles which help defining report content should be emphasized. In terms ...