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AECOM employees to support Pollinate Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... volunteer to join Pollinate Energy, a not-for-profit social enterprise that is providing affordable clean energy solutions to people in India's urban slums. AECOM landscape architect Belinda Dods, environmental engineer Rosanna Sanderson and engineering ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon credits because there's increased volatility. In terms of the emergence of any exchange, I think that there are few people jostling for that spot, and the [Sydney Futures Exchange] is probably going to be the main one. To a certain extent, carbon ...

AXA IM: board diversity an issue at EuroStoxx50 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... investment at AXA IM. "If you look at the top European companies by market cap, their board is still often made up of the same people they've always been- European men. But the good news is that they are aware of the need for change, and we came away ...

Bush Heritage Australia fund pays farmers for conservation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... owners around conservation of these types of areas has been ongoing for 20-plus years," she said. "It got to the point where people started thinking that the typical approaches weren't going to work, such as properties being purchased. There are ongoing ...

Christian Super invests in microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... consumers," said Andrew Kuper, founder and president of LeapFrog Investments. "It's not the middle class, but the two billion people in Africa and Asia that are under the middle class but rising into it, and increasingly demanding financial services ...

LUCRF Community Partnership Trust opens in South Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Fund - was founded in 1978 by the Storeman and Packers Union. "The fundamental values of the union are supporting working people," Sword said. "That's the founding principles that underpin the starting of this fund, and we've carried it all the way through ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... why not' jurisdiction," she said. "At ACSI, we think that is very suitable for the Australian market, because it allows people to take their own approach and it also means that the organisation has to think its way through the particular change, which ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... highlighted by recent tragedies such as the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh in April which left more than 1,100 people dead. In addition to the sheer human toll of such accidents, they can also pose a reputational risk to retail companies that ...

PRI to launch new reporting, assessment framework in October

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... signatories with those practical tools, Reynolds said. "Part of the process was assessing, across all the things we're asking people to report on and assess them on, what are the tools that we have in each of these areas to assist signatories, to make ...

End of Financial Year time for tax, ethical investment check

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... the potential for investors to have more access to information like that under the Stronger Super reforms, Kirk said. "If people do want to take an active interest in where their money is invested, it can be challenging," Kirk said. "Frequently, funds ...