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Wesfarmers publishes 2012 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... to 6.8m tonnes CO2-e, down from 7.7m in 2011. That figure encompasses scope one, two and three emissions as well as transport emissions in the supply chain and Wesfarmer's percentage of joint venture/investment emissions. Energy consumption also fell ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... criteria for investment," he wrote in a piece on the Climate Bonds Initiative website. The fund will be allocated to transport and infrastructure, energy and biodiversity. This interest in climate bonds should result in great interest in a bond issued ...

Citi: "Carbon bubble" represents 1-2% of ASX200 value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... companies involved in coal fired power generation (AGL, Origin); and a raft of mining services, engineering, explosives and transport companies (eg Asciano, Ausdrill, Boart Longyear, Bradken, Downer EDI, Emeco, Incitec Pivot, Leighton Holdings, Macmahon ...

Retail supply chain policies pose sustainability challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... from inland China to export markets offset lower wages. "[O]ur recent visit to China highlighted a lack of sufficient transport infrastructure means that production for the export markets has not moved far - much is still within 12-18 hours distance ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... circumstances for the supply of natural gas, and in particular, do pipeline operators have liability for the gas they transport? Also, not all of the regulations that are required to underpin the scheme are in place - one example of this is the regulations ...

SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... with Apunipima Cape York Health Council to ensure clients from Cape York have access to affordable accommodation and transport when in Cairns, said Minister for Employment Participation Kate Ellis in a statement announcing the loan. SEFA and Foresters ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... projects or green related projects. For example, the World Bank Green Bond provided funding to the Colombian public transport system. They were using a lot of diesel busses, so the bond went to the financing the change of the diesel busses. Where that's ...

AMP Capital fund buys stake in Indian clean energy company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The AMP Capital Asian Giants Infrastructure Fund (AGIF) has purchased a minority stake in clean energy company Shalivahana Green Energy Limited (SGEL) for almost US$29m. SGEL develops, owns and operates a portfolio of power generation assets across ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... powered project. "There is supranational issuance and projects that are going like Thailand and China, and sustainable transport systems in Colombia," Hartnett said. "You can get the see through with green bonds that we need and the exposure to economies ...

Report: US$174bn global market for climate-themed bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... disclosure to determine if they qualify as "climate-themed bonds." The climate-themed bond market is dominated by US$119bn of transport bonds - almost entirely railway bonds, and US$29bn in low carbon energy bonds, according to the report. Kidney noted ...