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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 ...

IFC, Shenzhen Emissions Trading Exchange sign agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... which will lift the exchange's operations to the next level." The Shenzhen exchange encompasses 635 companies and 26 industries. Shenzhen is a special economic zone in China's south-east. It has one of the world's largest fleets of electric vehicles ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Management & Technology, GWA Group, Sonic Healthcare, Infigen Energy, Tox Free Solutions, Ingenia Communities, Transpacific Industries Group, Invocare Limited, TPG Telecom Limited, and Kathmandu Holdings.

CEFC provides $20m loan facility to Carnegie Wave Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... managing director. "With our wave energy resource and technology capabilities particularly in the offshore oil and gas industries we believe there is significant potential for Australia to be a leader in this field which can create new industry and export ...

350.org Australia issues ASX200 fossil fuel divestment study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Bank, NRW Holdings, Orica, QBE Insurance, Qube Holdings, Suncorp, Toll Holdings, Transfield Services, Transpacific Industries, UGL, Westpac and WorleyParsons. US-based analysts at investment manager Aperio Group ran models of the impact on a listed equities ...