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La Trobe sustainability report discloses ESG action, targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... The university disclosed accomplishments against a range of performance standards, including reducing facility greenhouse gas emissions to 0.13 tonnes CO2-e/GFA, against a target of 0.17 CO2-e/GFA, reducing paper use and increasing female academic staff ...

Global Reporting Initiative G4 draft out for public comment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... of Ernst & Young, Michael Cass of Shell and Peter Colley of the CMFEU Mining and Energy are participating in the greenhouse gas emissions working group, Paul Davies of Banarra is participating on the disclosure of management approach working group, Simon ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... offset the carbon emissions. The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGERS) Act, is the basis for reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the carbon pricing regime. Because of the fixed price of the initial three years of the regime, there ...

British government to mandate LSE greenhouse gas disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange's main market will have to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions from 2013, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced. The British government will introduce legislation bringing in the new ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... the CFI must have rigorous monitoring processes to assure that the claims of a tonne of carbon sequestration or greenhouse gas emission abatement measures up. "We're starting some early stage projects," said Burns of Sigma Global. "The companies want ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... air emissions from fracking operations. "Methane is more than twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and has much greater short-term warming potential," said Stephanie Pfeifer, IIGCC executive director in a statement. "Concerned ...

Pangolin Associates to partner with PKF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) assurance. The companies will work together to service contracts with greenhouse gas compliance requirements and to fulfill obligations under the forthcoming carbon pricing mechanism. "We have had a long ...

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... to consultancy Pangolin Associates. Iain Smale Pangolin Associates, which performs energy efficiency audits and greenhouse gas (GHG) assessments, among other services, used research from the University of Sydney that models the impact of the carbon price ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $1.6m Ipswich building upgrade

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... system. The three-month building project is expected to produce annual energy savings of 718,000kWH and annual greenhouse gas reductions of 718 tonnes. Low Carbon Australia helped us with finance for about 90 per cent of the total project cost," said ...

Plantic opens expanded bioplastics facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... over 13m KwH of energy, the equivalent of powering over 2000 Australian homes," Morris said. "It will also cut greenhouse gas emissions by five thousand tonnes, which is equal to planting more than 750,000 trees." This week, Greg Combet, Minister for ...