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ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Differences in carbon pricing policies in various countries and regions will cause variations in production costs for the mining industry, raising the possibility that production in one area will become less competitive than in others, the International ...

Pacific Hydro reduces carbon footprint 37%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... impacts of wind farms and the impacts of hydro projects. Pacific Hydro notched up 4,744 tonnes of scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions in the 2011 financial year across construction, ongoing operations and office-based activities of majority-owned ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... engagement and the percentage of women in leadership and decreases in its lost time injury frequency rate (LITFR) and greenhouse gas emissions, against a backdrop of a net profit of AU$6.99bn, an increase of 10% over 2010's result. The financial services ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... residential development sector," said Nicholas Collishaw, Mirvac managing director. "One key initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is our commitment to achieve an average 4 Star NABERS Energy rating on applicable office buildings managed by our ...

Australia enters the era of carbon as a commodity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... conjunction with a local piggery utilise biogas "generated by the decomposition of manure produced by around 200,000 pigs. This gas is used by the local community for cooking and thermal heating, displacing traditional fuels such as coal and wood." The ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... In the end, the tri-generation system selected replaced the existing source of electrical supply to on-site generation from gas. The waste heat from this process is then re-claimed to substitute into other building services systems. The electricity demand ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
The mining of coal seam gas has never been more prominent in Australia, and institutional investors are weighing the environmental, social and political risks of being invested in companies with exposures to coal seam gas operations. While there are ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... governance structures through the full publication and verification of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas, and mining. Under the EITI pilot, Australia will assess the transparency of its financial reporting arrangements for the resources ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... are all different legal entities that issue their own bonds. These companies might have different power sources - nuclear, gas, coal - so they could pose different risks to their bond holders. We are not currently breaking the analysis down to that level ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... require disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for oil and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and the extent to which these factors might impair assets. The company opposed the motion and it only received ...