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Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... initiatives into its calculations, including the clean energy future carbon price, the RET, the New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme, the Queensland Gas Scheme, and the Victorian Government Renewable Energy Target. See Also: Renewable energy ...

Pacific Hydro reduces carbon footprint 37%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... impacts of wind farms and the impacts of hydro projects. Pacific Hydro notched up 4,744 tonnes of scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions in the 2011 financial year across construction, ongoing operations and office-based activities of majority-owned ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... engagement and the percentage of women in leadership and decreases in its lost time injury frequency rate (LITFR) and greenhouse gas emissions, against a backdrop of a net profit of AU$6.99bn, an increase of 10% over 2010's result. The financial services ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... residential development sector," said Nicholas Collishaw, Mirvac managing director. "One key initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is our commitment to achieve an average 4 Star NABERS Energy rating on applicable office buildings managed by our ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... require disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for oil and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and the extent to which these factors might impair assets. The company opposed the motion and it only received ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
AWE Limited, an oil and gas exploration and production company, reported a 3% decline in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to approximately 203,000 CO2-e, with production of 6.12m barrel of oil equivalent (BOE), basically the same as the 6.09m BOE production ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Chair of the Future Melbourne (Eco-City) Committee, Councillor Cathy Oke. "More than 50% of the municipality's greenhouse gas emissions are generated by the commercial sector and we have an ambitious plan to catalyse the retrofit 1200 city buildings ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... governments need to promulgate integrated climate change and clean energy policies with clear short, medium and long-term greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and clear mechanisms and timelines for delivering on the objectives, as well as comprehensive ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has developed two new standards that will measure greenhouse gas emissions across companies' value chains and across product life cycles. The Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) harmonizes global methodology to measure corporate ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... profit for the 2011 financial year of AU$553m, an increase of AU$521.6m over last year, while decreasing energy, greenhouse gas and water intensity across its entire portfolio. DEXUS owns, manages and develops office, industrial and retail properties ...