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UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... models are used and how they impact upon a stock of capitals and some of those capitals are clearly natural capitals in nature. We are now building reporting methodologies that pick up those effects more effectively." Developing standards that can be ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Initiative. The standard is supervised by a board made up of the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), the Nature Resources Defense Council, the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk, the Investor Group ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Norton Rose Fulbright The changes proposed in Starting Emissions Trading on 1 July 2014: Policy Summary are mechanistic in nature with no untoward surprises said Elisa de Wit, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. "The key change, which is more at a policy ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... difficult to use responsible investment strategies with a quantitative approach to the ASX index because of the concentrated nature of the market. He noted, for example, that applying an ESG screen and overlay to the MSCI World index still leaves a wide ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... overweighted and higher carbon-intensive stocks are underweighted. "While forward-looking analysis is speculative by its nature, an analysis of the historical data shows that the financial risks involved in fossil-fuel divestment are minimal, and can ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Gobur Road, Merton, is located in Northeast Victoria, and the other, Whirrakee Wedderburn, is located near the Mt Korong Nature Conservation Reserve, just east of Wedderburn in the Victorian Central Goldfields. Both projects are now eligible Kyoto offset ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... notes that almost US$35 billion of bonds have yields of 5% or higher. Climate-themed bonds also tend to be long-term in nature - almost US$87 billion is available in tenors longer than 10 years, and US%54 billion have tenors in the range of five to 10 ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... fossil fuel companies. Bill McKibben, co-founder and chairman of the board of 350.org McKibben, the author of The End of Nature, and co-founder and chairman of the board of 350.org, an international climate campaign, visited most of the capital cities ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... fund performance based on a weighted average of the five-year Australian government bond rate, reflecting the long-term nature of the fund's performance. The CEFC will also be able to offer a limited amount of concessional loans - i.e., loans offered ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation gets investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... fund performance based on a weighted average of the five-year Australian government bond rate, reflecting the long-term nature of the fund's performance. The CEFC will also be able to offer a limited amount of concessional loans - i.e., loans offered ...