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Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... the percentage of women in leadership and decreases in its lost time injury frequency rate (LITFR) and greenhouse gas emissions, against a backdrop of a net profit of AU$6.99bn, an increase of 10% over 2010's result. The financial services and banking ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... technology that will save an estimated 388,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) and 344 tonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide (C02-e) emissions per year. Another was the Castlereagh Street energy efficiency upgrade, which featured the installation of variable speed ...

Australia enters the era of carbon as a commodity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... passed into law, and now that the infrastructure and timeline to creating a market-based mechanism for pricing carbon emissions is reality, so begins the era of carbon as a commodity. Liable companies will need to offset their emissions with permits ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Local Government Super (LGS) has completed a retrofit of a Sydney commercial property that will reduce the building's emissions reduced by approximately 85% and allow the building to operate independently of the electricity grid within a year. The upgrade ...

Only 4% of CDP respondents see high risks with carbon pricing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... and the impact of the common National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) framework, said Emma Herd, director of emissions and environment at Westpac, a sponsor of the report. "There have been changes in the way things are disclosed," Herd said. "NGER ...

Carbon tax passes Senate, pricing concerns remain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... firm Clayton Utz, which issued a bulletin after the legislation passed on Tuesday. "We do not know yet what will be the emissions cap to apply when the scheme moves from fixed price to capped emissions from 1 July 2015," the firm said. "This cap will ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... response" to the floods and Cyclone Yasi. In terms of environmental commitments, the bank reported 170,668 tonnes of carbon emissions, or 5.19 tonnes per full time employee equivalent, lower than last year. CBA's new Commonwealth Bank Place in Sydney ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for oil and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and the extent to which these factors might impair assets. The company opposed the motion and it only received around ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
AWE Limited, an oil and gas exploration and production company, reported a 3% decline in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to approximately 203,000 CO2-e, with production of 6.12m barrel of oil equivalent (BOE), basically the same as the 6.09m BOE production ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... (EUA) to fund a AU$400,000 retrofit of a building that will result in a reduction of approximately 170 tonnes of carbon emissions per year. The EUA was signed between the City of Melbourne, Sustainable Melbourne Fund and Varga Brothers, owner of 460 ...