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CEFC invests $536 million across 39 projects in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... for the 2012/2013 financial year. The CEFC launched on 1 July, and incorporates the previous investments of Low Carbon Australia. The fund's mandate is to provide financing to renewable energy, energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was ...

RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... O'Connor noted. "At the top level, it's an impressive story - 40% are managed in responsible investment, compared to Australia to 16%, and it's a significant proportion," O'Connor said. "When you take out of that the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and ...

IGCC welcomes CCA draft report on emissions targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... welcomes the "pragmatic assessment" of the Climate Change Authority (CCA) draft report, but says it raises questions of how Australia will achieve higher emissions reductions. In its draft report into caps and targets, the CCA did not make a final recommendation ...

CDP calls for corporate stewardship to manage water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
Companies see water as a substantive risk to their business, but they are focusing on "misguided" approaches to water-related risk management, according to the CDP Global Water Report 2013. The report is based on data given to CDP by 180 companies listed ...

UCA Funds Management appoints Terry McCredden to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... ambitions and we are looking forward to his contribution." UCA Funds Management is an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania and provides investment management for charities, faith-based organisations and their members. ...

Local Government Super names Joanna Davison director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... acting chief executive Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL).Davison was previously regional managing director for Australia and New Zealand at CFS Global Asset Management (CFS GAM). During this time she was integral in CFS GAM's positioning as a leading ...

City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ed. note: This article has been updated with information from Cr Arron Wood The City of Melbourne and the Sustainable Melbourne Fund are reaching out to advise non-residential commercial building owners of financing options for cost-effective solar ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Australian investors have joined a group of 70 global investors calling on the world's top oil and gas, coal and electric power companies to assess the financial risks of climate change to their business. The Carbon Asset Risk (CAR) initiative, coordinated ...

CBA questioned over carbon emissions calculations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has reported that it has achieved and exceeded its target to reduce carbon emissions by the end of the 2012/2013 financial year, but it included in its calculations of its reductions a re-allocation of 3,500 tonnes ...

DLA Piper: climate change legal risk in property development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... firm DLA Piper. Mark Baker-Jones, special counsel at DLA Piper "There are changes occurring in legislation throughout Australia that are resulting in organisations having to directly or indirectly take into account climate change when making decisions ...