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Supply chain sustainability school launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... launch the Supply Chain Sustainability School in Australia, with additional funding and support provided by the NSW government, Sustainability Victoria and Construction Skills Queensland. The school will be delivered by the Net Balance Foundation, with ...

Government retains gender equity reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... 100 employees will continue reporting gender equality data to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), but the government has removed several requirements that were due to commence in April. Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia Senator Eric ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... investments and 5-20% is allocated to cash. The fund features screens for ethical investments and environmental, social and government factors. See Also: Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Those entities with emissions that fall below the baseline may have the opportunity to sell their abatement to the government. The EFR will serve as a financing pool for entities to bid for funding to support their emissions reduction activities. The ...

Carnegie Wave Energy launches Perth Wave Energy Project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Perth Project, which will also go towards CETO 6. "This progress is a clear example that given time, and with the right government support, emerging renewable energy technologies can progress along the innovation chain towards commercialisation," Frischknecht ...

South Australia one step closer to building upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The government of South Australia has introduced legislation that will enact environmental upgrade finance allowing commercial property owners to access finance to retrofit buildings to improve water, waste and energy efficiency. South Australia Climate ...

RIAA reviewing responsible investment certification program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... program was developed in partnership with the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) and the Victorian government, and it "aims to promote consistent, standardised disclosure and education about responsible investment," according to the ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... to decide that it's worth the trouble when it's not hard to sell plain vanilla corporate bonds because the yields on government bonds are so low. The issuers don't have to issue a green bond to sell a bond, so there has to be other benefits in terms ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The New South Wales government will target bringing two new social impact investment transactions to market per year as part of a ten-point social impact investment policy announced this week. Daniel Madhavan, CEO, Impact Investing Australia NSW is ...

Principles for Responsible Investment hire head of Africa

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Investment (PRI) have hired Adrian Bertrand as head of Africa, networks and global outreach. Bertrand joins the PRI from the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) of South Africa, where he worked for four years as environmental, social and governance ...