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Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... and supply chain. Out of the 22 issues that were identified by stakeholders, reputation and market positioning, climate change and energy, carbon pricing, waste and water management, engagement with employees, tenants and customers and stakeholders ...

Carbon tax passes Senate, pricing concerns remain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... transactions and the sooner they can appropriately price their products and services," said Mathew Nelson, Ernst & Young's climate change and sustainability leader. "The ability of businesses to begin to prepare for full trading is also impacted and ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC)'s new Low-Carbon Finance Working Group will play a stakeholder role with "green" financing institutions both domestically and overseas, consulting with the institutions being established by governments to ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Three leading investor groups on climate change, including the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC), have called for policy action to stimulate private sector investment into climate change solutions that can create jobs and ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... that will be introduced later in 2012 to allow the CEFC to start operating in 2013/2014. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) welcomed Broadbent's appointment and said that her background and experience will help the CEFC iwn the confidence of ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... cap." Meanwhile, investors also welcomed the certainty that the legislation's passage brings. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), a collaborative body of Australian and New Zealand institutional investors managing AU$700bn in AUM, said that ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... it to other types of infrastructure investments," said Nathan Fabian, chief executive of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). "They have higher confidence in infrastructure investments that they understand or have done before - bridges, roads ...

Carbon price an "entry point" for sustainability discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... year 2010-11 for a corporation are required to register with the Greenhouse and Energy Data Officer, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and report on those emissions annually. Each year, corporations are required to supply information ...

CDP finds 68% of global corporates embed climate change strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
More than half of the world's largest public corporations have embedded climate change strategies into wider business strategy, according to the 2011 edition of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Global 500 report. According to the report, Accelerating ...

Investors urge adoption of carbon legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... parliament and scheduled a vote in the House of Representatives for 12 October, a move welcomed by the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). Under legislation outlined by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the scheme will start from 1 July 2012. For the ...