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GRI makes appointments to Stakeholder Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Tata Chemicals Magadi, Nilesh Moodley, group sustainability manager, Liberty Group, Roberto Pedote, vice president of finance, investor relations and legal affairs, Natura Cosmeticos, Karsten Schroeder, head of sustainability measurement and reporting ...

bankmecu: integrated reporting develops integrated thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... think that it was interesting and challenging, because you do have business departments that are siloed, and getting the finance team to incorporate information from other parts of the business was interesting." The process was founded on bankmecu's ...

CEFC invests $536 million across 39 projects in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)'s portfolio includes 39 investments of over AU$536 million, and every dollar that the CEFC has invested has attracted $2.90 of private sector investment. CEFC CEO Oliver Yates The CEFC has released its annual ...

UCA Funds Management appoints Terry McCredden to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Responsible Investment Association Australasia Benchmark report. "We are delighted to have been able to attract such a respected finance industry leader to our board," said Dick Carter, chairperson of the UCA Funds Group. "Terry offers us a unique combination ...

City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... a lot of models out there to pay for those projects such as operating leases, chattel mortgages and other longer term finance. What've seen in the market is that EUAs, as a form of financing, make solar compelling. Solar might have a seven year simple ...

Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Willingness to pay - a governance metric - constitutes 30% of a country's final BSRI score, while fiscal space is 40%, external finance position is 20% and financial sector health is 10%. BlackRock defines willingness to pay as a measure of a government's ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Green bonds could potentially be issued to finance capital investment in the chemical industry, said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative CEO. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds CEO "The latest science shows that carbon emissions in industrialized countries ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... of Centennial Asia Advisors. He is formerly president of the Asian Institute of Management and served as secretary of finance of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998, and was chairman and CEO of the Development Bank of the Philippines from 1989 to 1993. ...

LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... The Sustainability Report. Earlier this year, LGS participated in a US$1 billion green bond issue by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). LGS bought US$6m of the three-year bond, which will be used to support IFC climate-friendly projects in ...

New co-op body to stress economic, social value of model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... virtuous circle. We talk a lot in economic growth terms about inviting investment in, to encourage people to get into social finance - we can encourage investors to invest in companies because they see a social and environmental return, we applaud that ...