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BP shareholders pass Aiming for A climate risk resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... resilience against 2035 scenarios, low carbon energy R&D and investment, executive incentivisation during the low carbon transition, and public policy activity relating to climate change," according to a statement from the Church of England. CDP is not ...

Mirvac integrates sustainability in "place-making" thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... quality of their life." Within the research, Mirvac has discovered that stakeholders are also placing more value on "transition zones" - shared spaces between buildings that can be used for multiple purposes for "dwell time," Edwards said. To that end ...

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Regulator has announced that the first Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) auction will take place on 15 April, and experts say the participants will most likely be drawn from existing Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) project owners. Jennifer ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... environmental and economic perspective on the short medium and long term?" At the same time in 2015, there will be the global transition to the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 standard - all organisations using GRI now have to apply G4 standards to ...

GRI launches Reporting 2025 initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... sustainability reporting landscape will look like ten years from now." Use of the GRI reporting framework is in a process of transition from the GRI 3.1 guidelines to the G4 standards. The standards were launched in 2013. Organisations already using ...

Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
A Climate Bonds Expert Working Group is developing criteria for water investments that can be used to back green and climate bonds certified under the Climate Bond Standard. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative chair The working group was brought together ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... they're going to work with this, how this works into what the fund does and then how do they report it sensibly. It's a transition with some well ahead and some playing catch up." See Also: ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure ...

Local Government Super enhances carbon-related screens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... driven by the fund's analysis that this sector will "adversely affected from an investment perspective by the likely transition to a lower carbon economy as governments respond to the increasing threat of climate change," LGS said. "We regularly review ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Other mining and manufacturing continue to grow, powered by lower carbon energy. While decarbonisation is a significant transition for Australia, it is achievable. And our economy has proven time and time again that it is flexible, adaptable and resi ...

IGCC calls on PM to retain Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... undermine existing renewable energy investments and halt future investments, IGCC said. "Investors are aware of the need to transition to a low carbon economy and include low carbon investments in our portfolios," Fabian said. "Maintaining the RET would ...