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ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Capacity building should be a multi-way learning and sharing process Include as much social as environmental transparency Scale down requirements for SMEs Additionally, individual governments should encourage greater corporate sustainability reporting ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation makes first investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... includes ANZ, NAB, ING, Shinsei, ICBC and EKF. "Successful refinancing deals help send a strong message to future large-scale renewable energy projects in Australia that it is possible for developers to successfully complete a development-finance-exit ...

CBA receives upgraded score in EIRIS sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... Global Sustainability Report 2013. EIRIS's sustainability ratings assess corporate sustainability performance on an A-E scale. The ratings combine EIRIS' assessment of a company's sustainability impacts with an analysis of management response to ESG ...

CDP extends partnership with FirstCarbon Solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... critical to reducing emissions, driving operational efficiencies and reinforcing the business case for sustainability at scale," said James Donovan, chief executive officer of FCS. "As we extend our partnership with CDP, we look forward to bringing additional ...

GHG efficiency projects increase cities' finances and health

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... emissions reduction actions are related to efficiencies, because they are clear wins and they are things that are hitting scale." The report cited the City of Sydney's identified that public lighting accounted for around a third of its electricity use ...

Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... how we can refine the definition of GB such that it is accessible to the investor. The challenge is that if you expand the scale of the green bond market, you have to expand what kinds of entities qualify, and there are questions about the standards ...

Pollinate Energy brings solar lighting to urban slums

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... use it for the distribution of solar. They've worked closely with us and it's been totally revolutionary because we can scale so much faster - we can see where the pollinators are working in real time, where the money goes, because it's all reported ...

Australia ranked fourth on global renewable energy list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... wind and oil and gas plants, even before the price of carbon is taken into account. "The analysis also suggests that large-scale solar PV could be cost competitive with new coal or gas plants by 2020, with other renewable technologies such as biomass ...

GRI, UN Global Compact renew partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... thousands of companies is a hugely valuable resource, to be leveraged to measuring sustainable development performance, to scale up the contribution business makes globally to sustainable development." The two organisations will also work to provide ...

Budget to cut ARENA funding, bring forward money to CTIP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... government for cutting a further AU$260 million of funding for energy efficiency programs like Low Carbon Communities and large-scale solar programs. On the more positive side, in the budget, the government proposed bringing forward AU$160 million in ...