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CBRE certified carbon neutral in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... so many workplaces in Australia, the commitment and efforts of employees is essential to reducing a company's carbon emissions. Identifying potential emission savings and developing solutions should guarantee a reduction in the company's carbon footprint," ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... are subject to the tax. Treasury estimates industries that are 90% of employment account for less than 10% of carbon emissions. To compensate for the impact of price rises that will inevitably stem from the carbon tax, the government has proposed AU$15bn ...

PUMA's environmental P&L reporting: a model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... about - they'll be challenging. I'm not quite sure how they'll go about it. They don't have a dollar value as carbon emissions and water have." Although PUMA might be at the vanguard for this type of reporting, Australia has the accounting framework ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... policies to reduce pollution and support the move to clean energy, identifying over 1,000 measures to reduce carbon emissions. "Some have introduced emissions trading schemes (ETSs), and all have in place a range of more limited, less direct measures ...

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 ...