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90% of ASX200 companies report on sustainability: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) annual review of corporate sustainability disclosure. Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO The ACSI review found that all industrial sectors except for media and consumer services now has at least one component ...

Podcast: Australia's Affordable Housing Solution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... experts and field practitioners: Mark Peacock, director of impact investing at Social Ventures Australia. Wendy Hayhurst, CEO of the New South Wales Federation of Housing Associations. Debby Blakey, CEO of superannuation fund HESTA. Jamie Muchall, business ...

The search for better social metrics to value affordable housing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... intermediaries and housing providers all seeking more reliable standards to assess social as well as investment impacts. Debby Blakey, CEO HESTA As discussed in a podcast jointly produced by The Sustainability Report and Pro Bono Australia, affordable ...

ARENA funds Southern Oil Refining biofuel lab pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... in March 2019. There is "clear potential" for biofuel production and refining in Australia, said Ivor Frischknecht, ARENA CEO. "Our agricultural industries have an abundance of plant waste that can be ideal biocrude feedstock and there are several potential ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund receives ARENA grant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Melbourne Fund to assist councils in Victoria to set up environmental upgrade agreements (EUAs). Scott Bocskay, CEO of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund The ARENA funding will partially subsidise the establishment costs of EUAs for up to 15 ...

MEP Werke GmbH, Strasser Capital join Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... equity, particularly in the European Union, will be a benefit to the Climate Bonds Initiative, said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds CEO. "We are looking forward to working with Strasser Capital and MEP Werke in stimulating innovative asset backed financing ...

Sandfire Resources completes DeGrussa Solar Power Project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... lithium-ion batteries storing solar power and sun-tracking solar PV panels maximising plant output," said Ivor Frischknecht, ARENA CEO. "Smart control systems are linking these components with the existing diesel plant to maximise the amount of renewable ...

Food Loss and Waste Accounting Standard launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... WRAP (The Waste and Resources Action Programme). "This standard is a real breakthrough," said Andrew Steer, president and CEO, World Resources Institute. "For the first time, armed with the standard, countries and companies will be able to quantify how ...

Video: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... Sustainability Report. The panel included Alice Cope, executive manager of the UN Global Compact Network Australia, Peter Murphy, CEO of Christian Super, Ian Woods, head of ESG Investment research at AMP Capital Investors and Michael Salvatico, executive ...

IGCC outlines climate change policy priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... government that should be a foundation for managing risk and encouraging investment in low carbon finance opportunities. Emma Herd, CEO, IGCC IGCC identified the seven policy priorities are "stable and durable climate change policy settings" that will ...