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Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... increased commercial costs from increased input factors and from pressure on passing those costs down to customers. "Electricity costs are probably going to rise, fuel costs are probably going to rise," she said. "Certain products, steel products will ...

AusLSA to provide access to environmental measurement tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Carbon Management on the reporting solution, which will allow members to input business consumption data including electricity, paper, waste and business travel, and calculate the environmental footprint. "The online Environmental Consumption Calculator ...

Calls for expedited reduction of SRES multiplier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... multiplier, the government offers a certain number of renewable energy certificates for every one megawatt hour of electricity created from renewable energy sources. The plan was intended to help residential owners offset the cost of installing rooftops ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... stepping out in front of the pack." Hueston also noted that Australia's renewable energy target to see 20% of Australia's electricity supply coming from renewable sources by 2020 as within global action as well. "The number of countries with renewable ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... the fact that the ASX is heavily exposed to the energy, materials and utilities sector, and that a vast majority of electricity is derived from coal, which is a Scope 2 emission. However, the audit, which is available on the LGS website, also showed ...

KPMG: agribusiness needs national food policy framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... exempt from paying the carbon price on their scope 1 and 2 emissions, they will feel the impact of higher costs in electricity and chemicals and fertilizers that will be hit by the pricing. Napier noted that the sector will look to organic fertilizers ...

Henry Davis York reports increase in pro bono, energy and travel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... firm's revenue grew 4% for the 2011 fiscal year, but environmental performance indicators - greenhouse gas emissions, electricity, paper consumption and waste generation - grew disproportionately to revenue, the firm disclosed. "While some increased ...

Four appointed to Energy Security Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Fox, Stephen Parbery and Michael Perry have all been appointed to the council. Bunyon has extensive experience in the electricity sector, including as chairman of Eraring Energy from 2000 to 2010 and as a director of Pacific Power from 1996 to 2000. ...

CSIRO: engagement increases wind farm development approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... of newspaper articles. The study attempted to analyse the gap between the conventional wisdom that wind-generated electricity is a tested and accepted alternative energy resource and the fact that the update and installation of windfarms is ostensibly ...

Westfield GHG emissions decrease, energy efficiency increase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... and indirect GHG emissions in 2010, attributed to decreases in waste sent to landfill and to offsets from purchased electricity emissions balancing increases in direct emission increases arising from more accurate measurement of synthetic gas usage. ...