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Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
A carbon-constrained economy presents long-term disruptive change to the business environment that requires innovation to respond with long-term strategies seeking opportunities with new business models, according to Sanjay Sharma, dean of the University ...

CEFC moves to Sydney as industry prepares for its launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
As the federal government announced that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will be located in Sydney, financial and investment institutions look to the CEFC's form and function as much as its location. The AU$10bn CEFC is expected to commence ...

Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... across savannas in the fire prone tropical north of Australia to reduce the area of a project that is burnt each year; and/or shift the seasonality of this burning from the late dry season (LDS) towards the early dry season (EDS)," according to the DCCEE. ...

FTSE launch carbon risk indices for Australia, Europe and Japan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... criteria, rather than historic emissions data. "One of the key elements to avoiding dangerous climate change is that we shift capital flow towards companies that are acting to reduce carbon," said Paul Simpson, chief executive officer, CDP. "These indices ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... the opportunities presented by carbon efficient supply chains," said Frances Way, program director for CDP. "Such a large shift in companies' procurement models is encouraging but since these trends are only now emerging, we are yet to see a transformational ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... chemicals. Under that scenario, Australia would rank as one of the five countries most likely to experience the greatest shift in demand and be worst off, along with the US, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Canada. As part of the study, Mercer outlined ...

Integrated Reporting to generate value, costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... that the emphasis be on meeting the needs of users, rather than those of preparers." However, CPA Australia noted that the shift to considering value creation and depletion might lead to companies that currently report profit under financial reporting ...

Durban agreements to impact Australia's ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Although the multi-country climate change talks in Durban failed to yield a comprehensive treaty, the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) did result in extensions to programs that ...

Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... predicted to be the major driver of renewable energy growth. "The RET and carbon pricing are aimed at creating a fundamental shift in consumption, in addition to investment incentives in the energy sector, to induce Australian companies and households ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The social and environmental supply chain policies and disclosures of ASX-listed companies has come under renewed scrutiny, with Net Balance concluding ASX100 companies do not uniformly disclose those supply chain impacts, and the Australian Council ...