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Study: GRI can boost public sector reporting efficiency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... Landcom, the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA), Queensland Urban Utilities, Mainroads Western Australia, Melbourne City Council, and the ABC. GRI Focal Point Australia is advocating for policies on consistent ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... and also as a senior policy advisor to the Victorian deputy premier, investment banker in Macquarie Bank's energy and utilities team and a solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques. She is a member of the Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Advisory Board ...

AMP Capital fund buys stake in Indian clean energy company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... AGIF targets growth oriented infrastructure investments in India and China in sectors such as transportation, energy/utilities, telecommunications and urban infrastructure. AGIF is also invested in a gas distribution franchise in China, a road developer ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... and consumer discretionary sectors notably have the highest frequency of labour rights controversies. The materials, utilities and energy sectors, as well as the telecommunications and industrials sectors also had both high frequency of labour rights ...

Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... GRI reporters - 14% of 2011 GRI reports come from within that sector, in line with previous years. Energy and energy utilities are the second and third most frequent GRI reporters, and the GRI said that there has been a "noticeable" rise in GRI reports ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... score of 297 tonnes versus 243 tonnes, based on the fact that the ASX is heavily exposed to the energy, materials and utilities sector, and that a vast majority of electricity is derived from coal, which is a Scope 2 emission. However, the audit, which ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... tonnes of carbon emissions a year - independent power producers and energy traders, construction materials, electric utilities, marine, multi-utilities, oil, gas and consumable fuels, airlines, metals and mining, paper and forest products, chemicals ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing industries, including mining, most electrical power utilities and chemicals. ...

Four appointed to Energy Security Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... experience in debt and structured finance arising from transactions for financial institutions, infrastructure projects and utilities. Parbery is a founding partner and board director of PPB Advisory, which provides services around insolvency, restructuring ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... material impacts, which in turn has contributed to a relative dearth of ESG -specific fixed income products. "Imagine some utilities that have exposures through carbon pricing, for example," Woods said. "There is certainly an issue there for debt holders ...