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Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... towards climate change solutions, including appropriate government incentives to compensate for heightened risk and sufficient scale of technology deployment. The report also emphasises that long-term policy stability is critical and retroactive changes ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... emerging technologies and businesses. Overcoming investment barriers related to technological development and deployment, the scale of investment opportunities and inadequate risk adjusted returns are all important priorities for the CEFC." IGCC has ...

Christian Super allocates $6m to social enterprise fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... program will undoubtedly be transformative, allowing social enterprises to access capital and business expertise at a greater scale than previously seen in Australia."

Local Government Super properties awarded 6 NABERS stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... energy, water, waste and indoor environment. The Office of Environment and Heritage recently extended the NABERS rating scale from a maximum of five stars to six stars to reflect the increased efficiency of Australian commercial properties. The two other ...

Carbon price will capture mines' fugitive emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... American, and BHP Billiton are already investing significant funds in the development of these new abatement technologies. The scale of the existing investment is already high and there is a risk that the funds in the government's support package will ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... has a database of over 5,000 investment strategies rated for ESG risk and opportunity, Birgden said. Funds are rate on a scale of ESG1 for best and ESG4 for worst. "The ESG ratings apply over all asset classes, and they allow our clients to either talk ...

Climate change issues integrated into investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... valuations or actively encouraging investment managers to do so. "It is extremely difficult for investors to make allocations at scale to low-carbon assets while policy settings are fragmented or short term in nature," said Frank Pegan, chairman, IGCC. ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... pricing in the UK "appears to have been a cost-effective way of achieving considerable abatement... At the other end of the scale, policies to encourage small-scale renewable generation are substantially less cost effective and have led to relatively ...

Goodman Group announces DIISR building development win

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Rating System - measures an existing building's environmental performance during operation. NABERS rates a building on a scale of one to five stars on the basis of its measured operational impacts in categories such as energy, water, waste and indoor ...

NSW coal miners engage in landmark stakeholder survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... contribute to cumulative impacts in the community. We recognise the concern about the cumulative impacts of mining and the scale of the industry's growth in the Upper Hunter." The study found that the social license to operate of the coal mining industry ...