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Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power offer biogas services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... will work with Quantum Power, a biogas-based renewable energy company, to assist farming, abattoir and food processing industries to create energy from waste. The alliance between Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power will bundle Low Carbon Australia's ...

Investors, traders welcome Australian/EU ETS linkage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Nathan Fabian, IGCC CEO. "The end game for global investors is low cost abatement and investment in carbon competitive industries. Linking the Australian and EU schemes supports both of these objectives. We originally thought that the Australian price ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... activities on ecosystems, recognising the risks of natural habitat destruction, but van der Lugt said he believes that other industries lag the mining and extractives sector in this recognition. "In the extractive industries, including the Australian ...

Solomon Islands implement EITI payment disclosure standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The Solomon Islands will implement the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Standard (EITI), meaning the government will disclose payments from its extractives sector. The Solomon Islands has established Solomon Islands Extractive Industries ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... they don't want to invest with us?" The firm will be making its pitch at a time when the investment and superannuation industries are under regulatory and legislative pressure to manage fees, present simplified products and provide advice. The governments' ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... risk management, rather than the opportunity. We do look at a range of different technologies and a range of different industries and we look at companies that have benefited from changes in terms of clean-tech or clean energy, but really a lot of it ...

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... a lot of noise out there about the rising price of electricity. It is important to clarify that all businesses and industries are not the same, and will not experience the impact to the same degree. For more energy intensive businesses, rather than creating ...

Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... purchase or generate or trade permits at auction, on the secondary market, and emissions-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries will receive free permits. "The costs that are going to be brought to bear under the carbon price really fall into two ...

Plantic opens expanded bioplastics facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Technologies and demonstrates the Government's continued support of clean technology innovation and the development of new industries in Australia."

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... investment opportunities, LGS has allocated to a specialist mandate of international equities focused on low-carbon industries, but Hartnett said there aren't opportunities for a similar mandate in Australia. "In international equities, we have an allocation ...