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City of Melbourne certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... McDonald, CEO of Low Carbon Australia. "Quantifying the carbon footprint of such an organisation and reducing carbon emissions is a mammoth task, but one that can have substantial benefits for the environment, the city and for ratepayers. "Councils taking ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... systemic level, there should be a focus on transaction taxes, stewardship codes and pricing externalities such as carbon emissions. "The fact is, if we are going to contain global warming below two degrees, as many governments have committed to doing ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... actual water bills to track performance." In terms of energy use, Charter Hall reported an increase in scope 1 carbon emissions, but a decrease in scope 2 indirect emissions from 2011 to 2012, but overall energy consumption fell slightly from 2011 to ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... and product information A healthy, safe and fair workplace Minimising environmental externalities, particularly carbon emissions, and Responsible service of gaming It's a good list, with the most problematic issues listed first and last. The phrase 'service ...

Local Government Super leader on managing climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... while pension funds have joined with initiatives such as CDP to lobby corporations for greater transparency about carbon emissions, the funds themselves have failed to disclose their portfolios' carbon liabilities or institute strategies to hedge against ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Companies that set absolute carbon emissions reductions targets are achieving reductions double the rate of those without targets, with 10% higher profitability, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon Action 2012 request. CDP Carbon ...

MSCI: Asia Pacific, EU green building market show potential

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... in the EU and Liberty in North America A majority of companies in Asia Pacific and Europe are tracking their carbon emissions or energy consumption - 58% in Asia Pacific, and 75% in Europe, while only 20% of North American companies are doing this, MSCI ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Future legislation commenced from July of this year with a three-year fixed price on carbon of AU$23/tonne of carbon emissions, transitioning to a market-based pricing mechanism from 2015. Fabian attributed the 12% drop in identifying carbon as a risk ...

Capturing the upside potential of Australia's carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... remains committed to unwinding the legislation establishing the three-year fixed price period of $23-per-tonne of carbon emissions and the transition to a flexible market for carbon permits after 2015. The government has just issued a discussion paper ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... businesses should consider across the fixed price period, where carbon is priced at a rate of AU$23/tonne of carbon emissions, as well as the flexible trading period that commences in 2015. These options could benefit businesses cash flow as well as ...