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Foresight Group launches Foresight Renwable Energy Income Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... infrastructure projects, Foresight said. Established in 2017, Foresight manages a $400 million portfolio, including four solar farms in Queensland and the 110MW Bannerton project in Victoria, a 192 hectare solar farm that provides clean energy to the ...

Foresight Group hires Kim Nguyen to head Australian operations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... plants in the UK, Southern Europe, and Australia. In Australia, Foresight manages AU$400 million across four Queensland solar farms and the Bannerton project in Victoria, a 192 hectare site that can generate enough clean electricity to power 30,000 homes. ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund receives new loan facility, new name

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... quarters of a billion dollars," Bocskay said. "The timing is right for this now. There are long term projects like solar farms, batteries are increasingly coming into play, and it all means business can take money they're spending today and put more ...

Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... related to improving water quality." Project Catalyst has benefitted the Great Barrier Reef by reducing chemical runoff from farms by 180 tonnes per year, providing research into improved soil, nutrient, pesticide, irrigation and storm water management ...

40% of Chinese Coal Power Plants are Losing Money: Carbon Tracker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... are either unable or unwilling to provide this data." The report also found it will be cheaper to build new onshore wind farms than operate existing coal plants by 2021. New solar PV will be cheaper than running coal by 2025. Further, the report found ...

CEFC reports 39 direct commitments worth $2.3 billion in FY18

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Finance Corporation highlighted that in the past financial year, it invested in 10 large-scale solar projects, and four wind farms, to deliver an additional 1,100MW in clean energy Australia-wide. Overall, the CEFC has financed more than 20 large-scale ...

Sodexo Australia moves to cage free eggs for fresh egg supply

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... to Australia's corporate sector for more than 80 years, and to ensure that only cage-free eggs are going to Sodexo, the farms are being third party audited to the industry Egg Standards Australia accreditation, said Bruce De Lacy, Farm Pride Foods chief ...

Meat and fish producers not managing ESG risks: FAIRR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... McDonalds and KFC, including Chinese firm Fujian Sunner and Indian firm Venky's, among those graded 'high risk'. Sanderson Farms, third largest poultry producer in the US, was also given bottom-tier ranking. FAIRR also found that the sector is not responding ...

ACSI supports "if not, why not" reporting for Modern Slavery requirement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... supply chains expose them to significant risks: recently we've seen reports of extreme labour exploitation on Australian farms, not to mention the slave-like conditions people work in, in other parts of the globe, to produce products which end up on ...

CEFC invests in north Queensland integrated wind, solar, battery project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... The CEFC has committed almost $260 million to the Kidston and Ross River projects, as well as five other large-scale solar farms in north Queensland. Since inception, the CEFC has committed around $350 million to Queensland clean energy projects with ...