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ARENA invests in Sunverge Energy via venture capital fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... with the Australian Government's $100 million commitment matched by SBCVC, ARENA said. Sunverge Energy is based in California.

IIGCC joins International Climate Bond Standards Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Climate Change and the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk are already board members. Other board members are the California State Teachers Retirement System, California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Natural Resources ...

Climate Bonds Standard tackles low-carbon transport

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... NextSTEPS, the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways research consortium, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, California; and Prof. Elizabeth Deakin, UC Berkeley Institute for Environment Design, California. The working group held its ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... change seriously and global pressures to reduce fossil fuel use will only grow stronger," said Jack Ehnes, CEO of the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), the nation's second largest public pension fund with $172 billion under management ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Governance Network (ICGN). She is CEO of Gore Creek Capital, and a former senior investment officer, global equity at the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). "It is an incredibly important time for investors to be heard as a growing ...

EY: Businesses need long term carbon policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... as putting a cap on coal consumption by 2015. There are currently existing ETS in place in the EU, New Zealand and California. "As a whole we prefer as strong a market-based mechanism as possible and we definitely want certainty, but it's also incumbent ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon assets. It was developed by the Climate Bonds Initiative. The standard is supervised by a board made up of the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), the Nature Resources Defense Council, the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Ceres ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... ETS forward by a year. But in other international, bilateral developments, the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that falls short of linking the two markets together. ...

CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... underutilised in Australia, although it says in the study that collaborative approaches have worked in Ontario Canada, California and in Queensland. The overseas experience cited in the paper builds the CEFC's case that demand management can reduce business ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... scheme last month, and are rolling out six by the end of the year and have committed to a national scheme by 2015. California is going quite strong... Quebec also started an emissions trading scheme this year. So there is much momentum for going down ...