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KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... - automotive, chemicals and synthetics, finance and insurance, food and beverage, metals, mining and engineering, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, electronics and computers, transport, and utilities. KPMG found the companies and their ...

Net Balance, Gold Standard report on co-benefits value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... study from The Gold Standard. Neil Salisbury, director, Net Balance Written by Net Balance, the study assesses greenhouse gas mitigation projects in developing countries to value the outcomes that come in addition to carbon mitigation achieved. The study ...

Managing ESG reputation can benefit corporate value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... a new incident. Sandra McCullagh, head of utilities, infrastructure, and ESG Research at Credit-Suisse cited the coal seam gas industry as an industry in which reputation has a major impact on a company's social license to operate, with concomitant impacts ...

UCA Funds Management names fossil fuel exclusion stocks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... and/or exporting thermal coal, extracting or refining unconventional oil and extracting and exporting of unconventional methane gas such as coal seam gas through fracking. Natural gas, coking coal and conventional oil remain eligible for investment ...

ASX companies lag global peers in disclosing water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... important," Day said. "Standards around water verification are much less mature than the equivalent standards for greenhouse gas data and information - probably five to ten years behind the equivalent standards in greenhouse gas. We're doing all we can ...

CEC analyses impact of removing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... potentially keep power prices lower, as compared to removing the target and increasing reliance on "increasingly expensive gas and ageing coal-fired power," according to the Clean Energy Council (CEC). The CEC commissioned a study from energy market ...

Three new CFI methodologies up for approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... Committee (DOIC), according to the Department of the Environment. DOIC has endorsed a methodology that "reduc[es] greenhouse gas emissions in beef cattle through feeding nitrate containing supplements; quantif[ies] carbon sequestration by permanent native ...

SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... contract to deliver cleaning services to mining services company Thiess. Thiess is the principal contractor to QGC in its gas project cite in Queensland's Surat Basin. The contract is expected to create 80 permanent jobs for Indigenous Australians, SVA ...

IFC, Shenzhen Emissions Trading Exchange sign agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... partner banks to 178 energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects, which cut more than 18.6 million tons of greenhouse-gas emissions a year, IFC said.

Margaret River Winery installs SunPower solar system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... the fermenters in the winery as well as cooling demands, he noted. Watershed used the federal granting money to replace the gas in their compressors, Barrett said, but these two projects are part of a wider list of environmental upgrades, including a ...