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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 ...

Bloomberg named supporter of Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Bloomberg has become an official supporter of the Natural Capital Declaration (NCD). NCD is a global initiative that affirms the importance of natural capital in maintaining a sustainable global economy. Natural capital is described as the planet's ...

Catholic Super makes case for global climate policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
Among the attendees of the UN Climate Summit this week was Frank Pegan, CEO of Catholic Super, who spoke at a panel discussion to make the case for "bold and consistent" climate policies to facilitate global investment. Frank Pegan (far right), CEO ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... 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 and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing ...

Investors commit to growing green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
A coalition of investors representing more than US$2 trillion in assets under management have committed to expanding the global market financing climate change solutions. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative chair The signatories to the Investor Statement ...

MSCI assesses future carbon exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... investments in a way that reduces carbon exposure in measured ways. For example, there are only 26 companies in the ACWI that own coal reserves, comprising about 1.3% of the ACWI market cap, Lee noted. "I think that there is a move in general towards ...

UCA Funds Management adds Transfield Services to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... fossil fuel policy, which stipulates that it will not directly invest in companies involved in mining and/or exporting thermal coal, extracting or refining unconventional oil and extracting and exporting of unconventional methane gas such as coal seam ...

Universe of climate-linked bonds expands to US$502.6bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... pick up because there are a lot of pure plays that fit. But energy bonds are issued by diversified utilities with a bit of coal, a bit of gas, etc., so unless they say where that bond is going, we can't include it. But - and this is another quite important ...