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CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... historically underutilised in Australia, although it says in the study that collaborative approaches have worked in Ontario Canada, California and in Queensland. The overseas experience cited in the paper builds the CEFC's case that demand management ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Paragraph 47: international perspectives one year on, features analysis from 49 sustainability reporting experts in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South Africa, UAE and the UK who looked at the impact of paragraph 47 of the United Nation's outcome document ...

Publish What You Pay renews call for mandatory disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... brings the EU in line with the US Dodd-Frank Act section 1504, which demands similar disclosures. Meanwhile, this week Canada announced that it will establish new mandatory reporting standards for Canadian extractive companies and Switzerland said it ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... return that Australia can use as a basis for its own measurements, including the Centre for Impact Investing at MaRS in Canada, GIIN, the Centre of Excellence established by the UK Cabinet Office, the White House Office for Social Innovation and Civic ...

Government to maintain existing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... direct investment. Australia is the largest recipient of Chinese outbound direct investment, ahead of the United States and Canada. In 2012, Chinese investment flows were US$11.4 billion in 2012, with 48% going to mining, 42% in gas, 3% to agriculture ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... SIF-Japan, and presents results from market studies by regional sustainable investment forums from Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, Asia, Japan, and Africa. The report measures sustainable investments across asset classes, from listed equities ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... most likely to experience the greatest shift in demand and be worst off, along with the US, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Canada. But the report also noted that the Asian region has investment opportunities with developments in low carbon technology. ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... most likely to experience the greatest shift in demand and be worst off, along with the US, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Canada. "There are particular implications in Australia," Poulter said. "It is a resource intensive economy, our superannuation ...

John Colvin elected chair of international directors network

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Institutes (GNDI). GNDI is an international partnership of nine corporate director organisations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Colvin was unanimously elected, with ...

Omega: governance measurements reduce bond portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... we're after." Using the metric has led Omega to be underweight the US, Japan and Italy, and overweight Finland, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Denmark and the UK. Omega has begun presenting this research to clients, McCrum said. "It's definitely something ...