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Clean Energy Finance Corporation gets investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Corporation's investments will be in the renewable energy sector, there is a particular risk of impact on the market for Large-Scale Generation Certificates under the Renewable Energy Target," the government said in the explanatory note. "The Corporation ...

Westpac focuses on demographics, environment in strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... work with SME clients. It's an exciting area because it hasn't had as much attention because it's more difficult to gain scale, but there are some big potential rewards as well." Westpac has also hired Siobhan Toohill, formerly general manager, corporate ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... "There is enormous frustration that the policy settings aren't reflecting the task. Funds in Australia because of their scale, their relatively small scale, really need products that are low-carbon vehicles. They're not going to have a lot of direct ...

Government to maintain existing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... period," said Bernie Fraser, CCA chair in a statement at the time. CCA analysis showed that reducing the legislated large-scale renewable energy target of 41,000 gigawatt hours would increase carbon pollution by 119 million tonnes over the life of the ...

CEC to partner with American Council on Renewable Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... strong collaboration on how to improve the policies and finance mechanisms that bring sustainable energy technologies to scale." ACORE will this week run a series of leadership roundtables in Australia with law firm Baker & McKenzie and the Australian ...

AMP Capital invests in North American wind farm portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... investing US$100 million with Capistrano Wind Partners, a developer, owner and operator of a diversified portfolio of large-scale wind energy projects in North America. Capistrano Wind Partners was formed last year by Edison Mission Energy (EME), TIAA-CREF ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... timescales to measure, feasibility measures, and are linked to relevant targets in the CBD. "That's the first step - to get broad scale agreement on what it is we should be monitoring," McGeoch said. "So we've developed this global system of harmonised ...

Climate Change Authority backs Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... carbon economic transition," said Nathan Fabian, IGCC chief executive. "By recommending maintenance of the 41,000 GWh large scale renewable target and reducing the frequency of future RET reviews, the CCA has avoided undermining the confidence of investors ...

Low Carbon Australia and CEFC to merge for 2013 launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... capital in to keep LCA going, and indeed, why would it when it's taken the decision to create the CEFC at a much bigger scale in the marketplace. We would either become a delivery vehicle for CEFC, an aggregator or we would be taken in as a merger. Right ...

NAB Asset Servicing developing ESG overlay tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... report that rates superannuation funds' overall ASX300 holdings "in line with international guidelines using a qualitative scale", Hele said. NAB will partner with as-yet unnamed external providers who will furnish ratings on companies, and NAB will ...