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Eureka Funds Management funds Sydney EUA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... of the most cost-effective ways for the commercial property sector to reduce ongoing operational expenses and carbon emissions." EUAs are agreements between a building owner, local council and financier to finance environmental retrofitting projects. ...

Carbon Trade Exchange sells EU arm to EEM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... see EEM take over CTX EU's European clients and European exchange businesses for both voluntary and regulated carbon emissions trading. The acquisition will assist EEM in its strategic goal to become "the largest and most comprehensive environmental ...

Pollinate Energy to open Kolkata office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... kerosene lights, which pose a safety risk, are expensive, and pose environmental risks because of kerosene's carbon emissions. The enterprise calls on volunteers thus far from Australia that join the fellowship program to go to India and help set up ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... is raising the ambition of the target so they help companies to set targets to account for their fair share of carbon emissions." To assist in the setting of emissions reductions targets, CDP, UN Global Compact, the World Resources Institute and the ...

Video: Fossil Fuel Divestment Exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... standards for fund trustees. Regulations and legislation are changing the way companies and asset owners report on carbon emissions and exposures to future carbon emission liabilities, and more than 30 countries have a price on carbon emission. There ...

Local Government Super top AODP index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... asset owners". However, the report also found that only 7% of asset owners in the index have calculated their carbon emissions, 1.4% of asset owners reduced their carbon intensity in the past year, and 2% of asset owners have an emissions intensity reduction ...

Inflection Point CM to launch Carbon Zero fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Management's Strategically-Aware Investing principles, and will invest in a portfolio of companies that have a net zero carbon emissions output, said Matthew Kiernan, founder and CEO of Inflection Point Capital Management. The fund is designed to meet ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Those countries were reanked on a sustainability risk matrix that combines climate change mitigation strategies, carbon emissions reporting, target setting, emission reduction initiatives, climate risk procedures, uptake of low-carbon energy, water risk ...

ACCR to continue engaging over banks' carbon disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... decided putting an item on Westpac's AGM was not necessary, Le Couteur said. "CBA has undertaken to disclose the carbon emissions initially from their lending to the energy sector and then all their lending," ACCR said in a summation of the 2014 commitments. ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Clean Energy Future legislation which brought in the carbon price at AU$23/tonne. Combet said that regulation of carbon emissions is more expensive than cap and trade in carbon emissions. "An alternative policy position is essentially to regulate, to ...