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City of Melbourne to hold EUA sessions for building sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Melbourne Fund are offering three free information sessions to educate consultants and contractors to the commercial building sector on environmental upgrade agreements (EUAs). The information sessions in February and March are aimed at the ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... environmental impacts for their top 20 property assets. "Our top 20 property assets are all in Australia and are a mix of commercial and retail properties, with a range of stars under the National Building Energy Rating System (NABERS)," Christodoulou ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... little benefit." Brodgen also said that detailed, discrete disclosures could also jeopardise a superannuation fund's commercial advantage, or give indication of trade movements, which would impair the fund's ability to maximise returns for members. The ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... doing this before the private sector comes in. That's what we've seen in the CDM space. To my understanding, there's no commercial incentive to go out and write methodology unless you're a university or an NGO." Sydney-headquartered COzero is both a ...

CSL reports new anti-corruption policy, lower emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... that amount, CSL Behring donated more than 1m units of von Willebrand factor/Factor VIII replacement medication with a commercial value of AU1.3m to the World Federation of Hemophilia's Global Alliance Program, which has the aim of improving diagnosis/treatment ...

Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... fuel switching," the report said. "Second, rapid growth has occurred in less energy-intensive sectors, such as the commercial and services sector, relative to the more moderate growth of the energy-intensive manufacturing and processing sectors." Bree ...

Presima joins Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... investment innovation." GRESB conducts a survey assessing the environmental and social performance of public and private commercial real estate investments. It is used by institutional investors to engage with fund managers and listed property companies ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreements vehicle for green investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Environmental Upgrade Agreements (EUAs), a new category of tri-partite lending vehicles, have been created for use in commercial buildings in New South Wales and the City of Melbourne. EUAs provide longer term, fixed rate debt facilities for owners to ...

Low Carbon Australia partners with Macquarie Equipment Finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... established an Energy Efficient Asset Financing Program to stimulate uptake of clean energy technologies in existing commercial buildings. The Energy Efficient Asset Financing Program will provide financing for lighting systems, heating, variable speed ...

Australian and NZ companies increase community giving in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... given by individual employees. The report breaks giving into three categories- community investment, donations, and commercial initiatives. "This year has seen a strong shift away from community investment (down from 57.7% to 46.3%) to donations (up ...