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ESG risks impact transport sector earnings, share price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... the transport sector than elsewhere.... If you have a poor safety performance, it makes it that much harder to attract people to you, for example. That's one of the indirect costs, but it's hard to quantify that." Indirect costs include production disruptions ...

National Sustainability Council issues macro-theme report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... report notes that over the past 20 years, there have been large improvements in educational attainment - by 2012, 80% of people aged 20-64 had completed Year 12, a vocational or higher qualification, up from 60% in 1994 and the percentage of women with ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... number of transactions that then would be funded by the first of July but committed before then. We are seeing a lot of people make proposals to us, about potential funding opportunities. While it's early days and some people still confuse us with a ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... (AODP) has been joined by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) on The Vital Few, a grassroots project that asks people to contact their superannuation fund demanding disclosure and transparency on details about climate risk and the extent of ...

RI Academy to offer Enhanced Financial Analysis course

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Essentials unit is a general overview, furthering the business case for doing ESG analysis, and then we feel a lot of the people who have undertaken the unit will take on the advanced course." The course addresses the skills necessary to identify new ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... report.... In some cases, we also saw that oil, gas and mining companies were decades ahead on, in fact. We found that a lot of people who were focused on CSR were under-resourced and driven by short-term policy compliance rather than the strategic view. ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... an industry forum that will coordinate activities to further develop the impact investing sphere in Australia. "We need people in the industry that either represent investors or who are gatekeepers or intermediaries to work in a coordinated way," Knowles ...

StepUP loans provide social, economic return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... worth up to AU$3,000, at 3.99%, repayable over a three year period. The program is aimed at reducing financial exclusion of people who are unable to access mainstream credit from banks and credit unions. Additionally, 64.4% of StepUP clients who had ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... license conditions, Anderson said. "There are specific concerns over unconventional gas - it's a new source of gas, and people are risk averse," Anderson said. "While the legal mechanisms for addressing many of the issues are the same as for conventional ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... about unburnable carbon is the impact of time," Prior said. "The point here is that unburnable carbon is something that people have to be aware of, there may be a risk, and we identify where we see the highest risk - which is for thermal coal and with ...