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IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... bigger issue - funds know they're weighted towards emissions assets," Fabian said. "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 ...

Government to maintain existing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Climate Change (IGCC) said maintaining the RET support investor confidence in the country's renewable energy infrastructure. "Policy stability and predictability are key to maintaining investor confidence in renewable energy," said Nathan Fabian, IGCC ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... efficient appliances and use of biofuels as examples of how companies are moving on climate change ahead of government policy action. This is also evident in the development of "green" products and services such as hybrid and electric cars, high capacity ...

UN Global Compact, GRI most cited CSR instruments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Business and Human Rights, and the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises on Social Policy (ILO MNE Declaration). "GRI's mission is to make sustainability reporting standard practice among all companies but there ...

CEC to partner with American Council on Renewable Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... collaborate and share information with our U.S. colleagues is evidence of the CEC's national leadership in clean energy policy development, and we look forward to the opportunities this partnership will unlock for the clean energy industry in both countries." ...

KPMG: fraud costs Australian/NZ businesses $373 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... and prevent bribery, fraud and corruption aren't complicated, Gill said. A functional anti-corruption and anti-bribery policy will feature processes for awareness training, risk assessment, channels for raising concern and for corporate response when ...

GNDI: encourage board diversity, but not by quotas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... business outcomes, but mandatory quotas are not the most effective way to improve board diversity, according to a joint policy paper issued by the Global Network of Director Institutes (GNDI). GNDI and its member organisations - including the Australian ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... biodiversity monitoring system based on a set of essential biodiversity variables to improve the data feeding biodiversity policy and sustainability metrics. Melodie McGeoch The team of 30 researchers, led by Henrique Miguel Pereira from the Centre for ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... September. Opposition leader Tony Abbot has made repealing the carbon pricing mechanism a centre point of the coalition's policy approach, but has also said that he would leave the CFI in place. ""The main areas that we're focusing on are landfill gas ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... change. The AODP report points to three main areas of climate change risks - technology impacts, physical impacts and law and policy development, and these risks require consideration of not just volatility, but future carbon regulation scenarios, new ...