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Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
A coalition of investors and other stakeholders are planning to engage with ASX-listed payday lenders and goods rental companies in a campaign to improve their lending policies to financially vulnerable Australians. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
A group of investors convened by Ceres' Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) will seek to build increased definition and structure to support the development of the green bond market. The investor group released a statement of investor expectations ...

ACCR to continue engaging over banks' carbon disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... infrastructure. There's still a plan to build Abbott Point. If it was financed by a bank, it would be for the improvement of coal transportation, and we consider that to be a carbon liability. However, banks are only categorising the actual mines they ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... trade in carbon emissions. "An alternative policy position is essentially to regulate, to say, you could regulate the brown coal generators in the Latrobe Valley and say you'll reduce emissions by this much," he said. "The cost of that will be much higher ...

Montreal Carbon Pledge a building block: Cbus' Atkin

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
The Montreal Carbon Pledge will be an opportunity for signatories to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) to demonstrate the impact that climate change will have on investments and strategies, according to David Atkin, Cbus CEO ...

CDSB publishes final draft of expanded framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) has released the final draft of its expanded reporting framework. The new CDSB framework will be launched in March 2015. This second, draft version of the standard incorporates comment provided to the initial ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... changed negative screening methodology, which has resulted in new exclusions for companies with exposures to activities such as coal, tar sands mining, and coal-fired electricity generators, the superannuation fund said. The threshold for the "high carbon ...

UNSW issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... campus consumed almost 69,000 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in 2013, with 66.3% coming from grid electricity - mostly coal-fired power plants, 18.3% from natural gas, 7.3% from co-generaiton, 7.8% from tri-generation and 0.3% from renewable sources. ...

Local Government Super enhances carbon-related screens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... negative screening methodology, which result in changes that will exclude companies with exposures to activities such as coal, tar sands mining, and coal-fired electricity generators, the superannuation fund said. The threshold for the "high carbon sensitive" ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Economics and Policy. "The report shows that Australian resource industries can continue to prosper if we shift away from coal and other fossil fuels. Other mining and manufacturing continue to grow, powered by lower carbon energy. While decarbonisation ...