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Low Carbon Australia forms alliance with Wiley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... recently worked with AJ Bush and Sons, an Australian meat by-products rendering company, to secure a AU$6.4m Clean Technology Food and Foundries grant to improve energy efficiency through the capture of biogas from anaerobic ponds which will fuel new ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Canada. But the report also noted that the Asian region has investment opportunities with developments in low carbon technology. "We come from the position of research and recognising the full extent of risks but also the upside that climate change presents," ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... losses caused by the impacts of climate change. The AODP report points to three main areas of climate change risks - technology impacts, physical impacts and law and policy development, and these risks require consideration of not just volatility, but ...

ANZ discloses ESG metrics in 2012 shareholder review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... drive a long-term, sustainable cost advantage particularly by using the flexibility provided by our operations and technology hubs." ANZ said it had achieved or partially achieved a range of responsible practices targets for 2012, including implementing ...

ASrIA: US$74bn in sustainable investment assets in Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... infrastructure, responsible investment tends to be limited to a themed investment approach, particularly environmental technology. ASrIA highlighted the 2012 launch of the Armstrong South East Asia Clean Energy Fund, which is seeking investments in the ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... supplement what exists with distributed generation." NovaPower's pilot project is innovative because it takes known technology, and then applies it in a new way, said Low Carbon Australia CEO Meg McDonald. "It is innovative, very definitely and required ...

More women appointed to ASX200 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... showing the highest growth in board roles held by female directors since 2008, up 13%, followed by the information technology and financial sector, up 10 and 7.6% respectively," said John Colvin, AICD CEO. "While the report has found that there are more ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... positive factor for business performance. Similarly there were strong positives for new product offerings (+40), new technology (+38.6) and staff training (+38.4). While external (government-built) infrastructure was neutral (+1.4), regulation of any ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Richgro waste-to-energy plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... for an anaerobic digestion plant for garden products supplier Richgro, allowing the company to adopt waste-to-energy technology. The anaerobic digestion plant is expected to be operational by June 2013 and is expected to have a capacity of up to 2 megawatts. ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... (such as the skills necessary to design develop and implement the project) and technical risks (such as the type of technology that will be used to generate carbon abatement)," the report said. "The upfront capital and timescale for project implementation ...