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NZ Super Fund invests in wind turbine developer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... "complemented the Guardians' strategy to increase investment in alternative energy and energy forms with lower carbon intensity, where a strong business case could be established," according to a statement. The investment is being managed by NZ Super's ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... like to understand what options there are for [the company] to manage these risks by, for example, reducing the carbon intensity of its assets, divesting its most carbon intensive assets, diversifying its business by investing in lower carbon energy ...

Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... in-depth in terms of fully calibrating all risks to companies held in their portfolios, including the risk of carbon intensity, in such a way that institutional investors understand that climate change, whilst it has a longer time horizon, already has ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Golden North project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... compressor plant capacity by 43% and improve the capacity of Golden North's refrigeration while reducing its carbon intensity by 47%," according to Nick Palousis, CEO of Low Carbon Australia's Alliance Partner 2xE. 2xE estimates the project payback period ...

Low Carbon Australia forms alliance with Wiley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... reduction of emissions." Wiley has already undertaken a variety of projects to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon intensity. Wiley recently worked with AJ Bush and Sons, an Australian meat by-products rendering company, to secure a AU$6.4m Clean ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... original projected growth emissions for 2012", which sounds good. But the report's environment section opens with a carbon intensity (tonnes CO 2 e/$mEBIT) that has risen 10% in 2012, which sounds bad. Then two pages later, we see that actual emissions ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... the banks can typically accommodate for a new business that's doing something new and innovative to reduce the carbon intensity of the Australian economy," he said. "[Low Carbon Australia] certainly helped us with tenure and the way we structured the ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... absolute reductions in greenhouse gas emissions - as Australia has done - while others have chosen reductions in carbon intensity or reductions in greenhouse gas intensity. "Australia's pledge is an unconditional 5% reduction on 2000 levels by 2020," ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... ESG is important for generating strong long term investment returns." As a way of both offsetting the risk of carbon intensity and to seek investment opportunities, LGS has allocated to a specialist mandate of international equities focused on low-carbon ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... scheme. However, a carbon price does set up a framework for long term structural change in the economy away from carbon intensity." The fund also analysed the impact of climate change-related policies and environmental impacts for their top 20 property ...