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Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The launch of the Carbon Farming Initiative brings opportunities for landholders to generate tradeable carbon credits from carbon abatement and sequestration activities. At the moment, the CFI only recognises three procedures to generating carbon credits ...

Presima joins Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Presima, a global boutique investment manager that invests in listed real estate securities, has joined the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) as a member. Presima is based in Montreal, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of nabInvest ...

Sunshine Coast TAFE certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... certifies products or business operations as carbon neutral under the Australian Government's National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS). See Also: Environmental Upgrade Agreements vehicle for green investment Low Carbon Australia partners with Macquarie ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... typically lack the resources of larger ones, are much more likely to have a health and safety policy than any other LHR standard. The disproportionate share of small firms in the ASX 200 may help to explain why it comes closer to global levels on health ...

RIAA: responsible investment funds grew 8% in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... intangible value drivers now make up the majority of asset value, yet they are often not well documented, fall largely outside standard accounting practices and are rarely priced into financial models. Responsible investment seeks to overcome these market ...

Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
As Perpetual finishes its second year as a UNPRI signatory, the investment manager will continue embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) into its investment considerations, including finalising a dashboard report approach to ESG with their ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Differences in carbon pricing policies in various countries and regions will cause variations in production costs for the mining industry, raising the possibility that production in one area will become less competitive than in others, the International ...

Woolworths' employment, supply chain policies in 2011 report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
Woolworths launched a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to advance opportunities of Indigenous Australians and reported a 30% decrease in its lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR), against a backdrop of a 5.1% increase in net profit to AU$2.124bn for ...

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
For companies to report and manage sustainability exposures for long-term value creation, they need develop strategies to improve environmental, social and governance performance. So says the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants, which has ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
Companies that sell tradeable carbon credits generated under the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) will have to register for an Australian Financial Services (AFS) license as part of draft legislation from the federal government. The federal government ...