If the world acts to keep warming below two degrees, average international carbon prices are likely to be between US$50 and US$80 a tonne by 2030, says a new analysis from BHP Billiton.
After gaining major environmental benefits and cost savings through a NSW sustainability program, Teys Australia will now earn valuable carbon credits from further site improvements.
BHP Billiton has returned to the ranks of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, while Telstra is no longer classed as a regional sustainability leader.
Setting effective environmental key performance indicators is a very different task to developing sound financial ones, says Incitec Pivot's Clare Luehman.
Gladstone Ports has developed an in-house fix to cut dozer idle time, ANZ has targeted its most energy-inefficient branches and Australia Post has a new $500,000 fund to trial new technologies, according to their EEO public reports.
Transport and logistics company Toll Holdings says a carbon price won't have a material effect on its business and aims to reduce its CO2 emissions intensity to 20% below 2009-10 levels by 2020.