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CEFC allocates more than AU$930m in first full year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... deliver an estimated 4.2 million tonnes of CO2-e abated annually, at a positive return for the taxpayer, while assisting industries Australia-wide in lowering emissions." The CEFC portfolio as it currently stands is predicted to earn a return of approximately ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... letter to funds. This move to harmonise the superannuation fund board risk management declaration with APRA-regulated industries emphasises a widened definition of risk that superannuation funds are legally required to consider, according to legal experts ...

Local Government Super enhances carbon-related screens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... opened the door to investing in nuclear energy by removing the existing screen that put nuclear on its list of excluded industries. The fund said that while the use of renewable energy will increase, it cannot meet energy needs around the world and that ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... director of ANU Crawford School's Centre for Climate 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 ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... including a robust mitigation response to carbon emissions by the international community. Under that scenario, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining ...

ARENA fund Laing O'Rourke redeployable solar hybrid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... pack down," Frischknecht said. "A semi-portable hybrid system like this carries enormous potential - it may provide industries and communities in regional and remote locations with a viable renewable energy alternative and could equally be used to assist ...

CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... at risk from climate change. In Rio de Janeiro, the low-lying West Zone is home to the cities' finance and service industries, and could flood from 1 meter of sea level rise, which could happen within this decade. These risks have global economic implications ...

CFI a source of economic opportunity for Indigenous groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... of Aboriginal Carbon Fund, a not-for-profit company that develops CFI projects. "Traditionally, there have been two industries - pastoralism, tourism, and now the third one is carbon farming. When looking at a viable economic activity on native lands ...

Push to focus on tax reform, transparency as part of G20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... country-by-country and project-by-project basis. Both of these proposals are the crux of Publish What You Pay and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. While BEPS has been a concern in the developing world, it is now increasingly an issue ...

IGCC: climate financing achievable, but needs policy clarity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... attention," Fabian said. "There also issues around what are the energy efficiency opportunities of energy-using companies and industries and how are they reducing the cost base and the emissions profile, and what is that doing to the profile of a company ...