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Assessing net benefits of Indigenous CFI projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... lower price for ACCUs under the ERF reverse auction structure, as compared to the fixed price under the previous carbon pricing mechanism, could have an impact on the financial sustainability of projects using CFI land sector methodologies. "[The projects ...

Mining companies not adequately managing carbon risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... performers. CDP called Glencore the "clear laggard" on carbon regulation preparedness, "due to its opposition to carbon pricing and dismissal of the concept of stranded assets." "This research is a canary in the coal mine for investors," says James Magness ...

CAER, South Pole Group partner on investment services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... funds, but today the conversations have turned increasingly towards the risk of stranded assets and impacts of carbon pricing on portfolio returns," said Duncan Paterson, CEO, CAER. The partnership combines South Pole's methodology with CAER's experience ...

AGL Energy joins We Mean Business Coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... climate change engagement on climate policy, and align with the UN Global Compact's Business Leadership Criteria on Carbon Pricing as part of its commitments, the company said. "We are heading towards a carbon constrained future and AGL wants to take ...

New Climate Economy report tackles decarbonisation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... corporations (MNCs), said Kate Levick, director of policy and regulation at CDP. "[For example], the recommendation about carbon pricing - many of the leading companies are using internal carbon pricing and CDP has published work about that, noting that ...

Carbon Trade Exchange sells EU arm to EEM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... products. Having a balanced scorecard of voluntary and compliance products is key for us." Although the removal of the carbon pricing mechanism in Australia meant the end of this country's compliance market, the voluntary market in Australia is still ...

Experts evaluate ERF baseline mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... threshold is anticipated to cover around 140 businesses. That is a significantly lower figure than under the previous carbon pricing mechanism. Under the previous CPM, around 350 entities were liable, said Elisa de Wit, climate change partner at Norton ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Financial and the Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL), Combet said that the Abbot government's repeal of the carbon pricing mechanism and the passage of the Direct Action Plan is a higher cost approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which has ...

Direct Action Plan, Emissions Reduction Fund approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Fulbright. Elisa de Wit, partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Three months after the repeal of the previous Labor government's carbon pricing mechanism, the Abbott government passed its Direct Action Plan (DAP) with support from the Palmer United Party and ...

Catholic Super makes case for global climate policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... featured new commitments by corporations and institutional investors to advance climate change action through a global carbon pricing regimes among other policies. Pegan and fellow panellists Jose Manuel Entrecanales, chief executive officer of Acciona ...