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Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Gobur Road, Merton, is located in Northeast Victoria, and the other, Whirrakee Wedderburn, is located near the Mt Korong Nature Conservation Reserve, just east of Wedderburn in the Victorian Central Goldfields. Both projects are now eligible Kyoto offset ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... notes that almost US$35 billion of bonds have yields of 5% or higher. Climate-themed bonds also tend to be long-term in nature - almost US$87 billion is available in tenors longer than 10 years, and US%54 billion have tenors in the range of five to 10 ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... fossil fuel companies. Bill McKibben, co-founder and chairman of the board of 350.org McKibben, the author of The End of Nature, and co-founder and chairman of the board of 350.org, an international climate campaign, visited most of the capital cities ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... fund performance based on a weighted average of the five-year Australian government bond rate, reflecting the long-term nature of the fund's performance. The CEFC will also be able to offer a limited amount of concessional loans - i.e., loans offered ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation gets investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... fund performance based on a weighted average of the five-year Australian government bond rate, reflecting the long-term nature of the fund's performance. The CEFC will also be able to offer a limited amount of concessional loans - i.e., loans offered ...

Applying multiple capitals essential to integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... organisations that want to be around in the long term." The six capitals as defined by IIRC are not independent, but the precise nature of their interaction is a focus of each organisation's focus, the paper notes. The IR prototype framework released ...

Companies advised to manage carbon price future uncertainty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... but Norton Rose believes that given the complexity of the legislative package, the impact of repeal and the controversial nature of the carbon pricing mechanism, it is more likely to take several months. Further, even if the Coalition does take both ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... determinations, a number of project approvals and the issuance of new guidelines by the Department." The quickly shifting nature of clean energy has meant that clients are coming to de Wit and her colleagues to develop methodologies for the CFI and to ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... concluded that integrating political risk is a useful metric for improving a bond portfolio's risk profile because of the nature of fixed income and its asymmetric return profile. Upside return is capped at the coupon yield, but there is the possibility ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... and reporting. It's the impact investors that don't have that depth within the team and understanding of the specialist nature of impact investing that will be exposed to the many complex investment, political, mission and operational risks when seeking ...