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Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The increased interest in using debt and equity instruments to fund social enterprises in Australia is leading financiers, investors and government bodies to consider various vehicles for financing businesses from within the community, including a category ...

Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Canada has gone one step closer to establishing a payment disclosure standard for its listed mining companies, with civil society groups in Australia increasing the focus on seeing a similar regime introduced here. Last week, a multi-stakeholder Resource ...

Pangolin Associates hires Sam Phua

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... (NGER) Act, Energy Efficiency Opportunities (EEO), the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), and the National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS). Phua is also an expert in carbon origination establishment projects such as the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). He ...

IIRC, SASB to collaborate on compatability of frameworks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) will work together to achieve complementarity and compatibility in their respective frameworks. Paul Druckman, IIRC CEO Jean Rogers, SASB ...

Global banks launch voluntary Green Bond Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... environmental impact of a potential green bond investment. The principles also assist underwriters by moving issuers towards standard disclosures which will facilitate transactions. The principles are also a voluntary effort to aid in market transparency ...

IIGCC joins International Climate Bond Standards Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... described in this way. "By putting certification standards in place for green bonds and climate bonds, the Climate Bonds Standard helps investors identify low-carbon bond investments and provide reassurance that their capital is being allocated to projects ...

Climate Bonds Standard tackles low-carbon transport

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The Climate Bonds Standard has established a Low-Carbon Transport working group which will develop eligibility criteria to certify low-carbon transport-related bonds. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds chair The group consists of Michael Replogle, managing ...

CDP to broaden, enhance cities program with Bloomberg grant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Bloomberg Philanthropies has awarded CDP a three-year, US$4.1 million grant to expand and enhance the CDP's reporting platform and technical support for city governments. The grant is a broadening of CDP's relationship with its "long-standing partner" ...

Co-operatives "have role to play" in public service delivery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... been a concentration on the question about how are we going to pay for all the things we believe are essential to our standard of living and the services we've come to expect and depend upon, but it diverts our attention from who gets to be really engaged ...

Colonial First State GAM publishes global stewardship code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... explain what it means for the way that we invest and the way we engage with companies. We're holding ourselves out to a standard such that it will form a part of our annual auditing and assurance process, which means we're going to have a look at all ...