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Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and current polling favourite to become prime minister, has sworn a "blood oath" to repeal the government's Clean Energy Future package. Meanwhile in the US, while states such as California have implemented carbon emissions trading systems, the federal ...

Oliver Yates named CEO of Clean Energy Finance Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was funded with AU$10bn and announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private investment, help overcome capital market barriers to commercialising clean energy technologies ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... what it really means. I think that's a really interesting highlight of the report this year." Australia's Clean Energy Future legislation commenced from July of this year with a three-year fixed price on carbon of AU$23/tonne of carbon emissions, transitioning ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... according to a new Ernst & Young report. Many businesses have implemented the processes to comply with the Clean Energy Future legislation, but many of those businesses have not gone far enough to optimise their strategy under the carbon pricing mechanism ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... the paper that clearly deals with environmental risk is the analysis of how legislated programs such as the Clean Energy Future and other initiatives, such as the renewable energy target, can be used to transform Australia into a low carbon economy and ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... paper calls for infrastructure investment to increase productivity, and identifies parts of the government's Clean Energy Future legislation as necessary to continue the transition to a low carbon economy. Some of the vehicles for that transition will ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was funded with AU$10bn and announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private investment, help overcome capital market barriers to commercialising clean energy technologies ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... opposed to 53% across all regions. The survey was performed in March 2012, after the passage of Australia's Clean Energy Future Act, which put in place a carbon pricing regime that commenced in July. "We have some good leadership in Australia," Birgden ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... the carbon pricing period, companies should have data collection and company processes in order." Since the Clean Energy Future legislation passed through Parliament last year, there has also been intense research into possible costs and implications ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Party/National Party coalition has endorsed the CFI, which was passed in a separate bill to other parts of the overall Clean Energy Future legislative package. However, the opposition coalition has committed to winding back other aspects of the carbon ...