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Low Carbon Australia finances Richgro waste-to-energy plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... project cost, and the remaining one-third is covered under a grant from the Australian government's Clean Technology Investment Program. Biogass Renewables is installing the plant and will integrate the latest European and British technology, designed ...

Oliver Yates named CEO of Clean Energy Finance Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... the CEFC - CEFC board member Michael Carapiet had a 22-year career at Macquarie Bank, where he served as head of the investment banking division of Macquarie Capital and became the executive chair in 2010. Carapiet is currently the chair of SAS Trustee ...

Investment in programs for Aboriginal women and girls needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... community because women act as catalysts for social change according to a report examining approaches for philanthropic investment. The AMP Foundation report The Best of Every Woman: An Overview of Approaches for Philanthropic Investment in Aboriginal ...

Fiona Reynolds to take PRI managing director role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) to take a job as managing director of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Fiona Reynolds The newly created position will see Reynolds work alongside James Gifford, executive director. ...

Investor groups call for new climate change policy responses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... (UNEP FI) have asked governments to agree to "clear, consistent and predictable policies that encourage low carbon investment; knowledge sharing between governments on effective climate and clean energy policies, building on successful existing national ...

PRI publishes hedge fund responsible investment paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... strategies with an eye to improving governance and values alignment in line with the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). PRI has released a discussion papers on hedge funds aimed at providing a framework for asset owner signatories ...

LGS generating energy savings certificates from retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... views the generation of energy savings certificates as a stream of increased value at the margin but not central to the investment case for the upgrade drive, said Brian Churchill, LGS property portfolio manager. "[ESS] was only introduced in 2009 and ...

Hermes Fund Managers launch quant ESG equity strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... new global quantitative equities ESG strategy is a natural extension of Hermes' existing quantitative global equity investment process, fully incorporating Hermes EOS' research into the investment process in a systematic manner," said Geir Lode, head ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... companies are identifying [opportunities], doing their financial analysis, prioritising them, building them into the re-investment cycle, but I don't think we can expect companies to talk about what they're going to do before they do it," he said. "What ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... grant schemes under which the abatement projects could be eligible to receive funding, such as the Clean Technology Investment Program."