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Swan: carbon price vital for first-rate, first-world economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Putting a price on carbon emissions is the only way to drive investment in cleaner energy innovation, and failing to do so would condemn Australia to becoming "an old-world, high-polluting technological backwater," Treasurer Wayne Swan said in a speech ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... 200 companies in the portfolio, and put up a resolution via a mechanism we've built into the process based upon carbon emissions/ reduction targets, or in the case of Woodside, how they evaluated the future cost of carbon in their modelling process. ...

Virgin Australia certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... acts as an independent accreditation body. Virgin Australia offers customers the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions related to each flight they take with all of its airlines, including Virgin Australia, V Australia, Pacific Blue and Polynesian ...

Australia well placed to implement ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... Australasia (Finsia) has reported that Australia has the legal, regulatory and capital markets expertise to implement a carbon emissions pricing mechanism and transition to a lower carbon economy. "The imposition of a carbon price will significantly ...

Pacific Hydro to trade carbon credits from Chilean hydro project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian projects is highly dependent on policy implementation, particularly around the creation of price on carbon emissions and a trading scheme. "Pacific Hydro is on track to double in size over the next five years but how we spread our investments ...

Australian companies asked to disclose water exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... hold, apart from the major projects that are already underway." In contrast to the received view of the impact of carbon emissions, which tend to have diffuse, widely dispersed consequences, water scarcity is viewed as being highly concentrated, localized ...

Government introduces carbon emission pricing plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
Prime Minister Julia Gillard The government has introduced legislation that will start pricing carbon emissions from July 2012. The two-stage plan, negotiated with the Green Party, will begin with a fixed price for three to five years and then transition ...

Carbon and Water Increasingly Important to Institutional Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are increasingly concerned with how listed companies manage water and carbon emissions, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). A record number of institutional investors are supporting the CDP's requests for information ...