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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 ...

PRI work stream to address systemic sustainability barriers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... implications of environmental and social externalities for portfolios, and explore the case for action by investors and policy-makers to internalize them in investors' interest Financial market stability - to promote better risk management within financial ...

Net Balance launches research and development institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... years "undertaking a range of major initiatives that have served to develop the evidence base for third sector research, policy and practice," Net Balance said in a statement. "I think the primary goal is to try and formulate a body of academic research ...

ANZ discloses ESG metrics in 2012 shareholder review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... and community statement to reflect the United Nations Principles on Business and Human Rights and developed a hydropower policy to supplement their existing water and energy policies, as part of their sensitive sectors policy statements. In terms of ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... or awareness, is minimal. The GetUp! Campaign to set limits on the Woolworths machines failed for being too ambitious - policy changes are one thing, constitutional changes another - though there are reasons for the GetUp! tactical choice. For now, though ...