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ARENA board members, CEO named

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and Ivor Frischknecht has been named ARENA's first chief executive officer. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson The appointments were announced by Minster for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson. ARENA, which ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... are causing potential developers from committing to the investment necessary to start: concerns over the technological resources need to implement and oversee a CFI project, concerns over the political uncertainty surrounding the carbon pricing regime ...

AGL Energy, First Solar granted $130m for solar project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... manufacturer First Solar will receive an AU$129.7m federal government grant to help finance a 159 megawatt solar power project. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson The AU$450m project will be built in Broken Hill and Nyngan, New South Wales and the thin-film ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... governance issues, either. There are some issues where it does do well -things like recycling, their efficient use of resources, but then they're very vulnerable on how they get their energy. Q: The green bonds are a very interesting component to the ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... and the fact that you're looking at going into different, newer regions where you have to explore and extract these resources. Both of those to some degree work against the issue of human capital management and how to deal with many subsidiaries, some ...

Greg Bourne appointed acting chair of ARENA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Greg Bourne has been appointed acting chair of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) board by Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson ARENA, which commences in July 2012, will be an independent statutory ...

bankmecu, Foresters Community Finance partner on loan scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... asset building space, assisting community organisations to build their expertise so they can better use their financial resources to grow their own assets," Lynch said. "Where bankmecu comes into it, once an organisation goes through the process with ...

AMP hires Ross Andrews as ESG research associate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... held by AMP Capital funds, including global listed property, global listed infrastructure, Asian equities and global resources funds. Andrews will also assist in AMP Capital's ESG analysis of corporate and sovereign bonds and international analysis of ...

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining names director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... University of Vermont, where he was professor of environmental studies at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. He has also served as director of the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security at UVM's James Jeffords Center ...

La Trobe University wins sustainability reporting award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... CorporateRegister.com, a UK-based organisation that aggregates and republishes corporate responsibility reports and resources. Awards were given based on votes cast by CorporateRegister.com users. Voting opened in October 2011 and closed Feb 2012, and ...