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Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... response" to the floods and Cyclone Yasi. In terms of environmental commitments, the bank reported 170,668 tonnes of carbon emissions, or 5.19 tonnes per full time employee equivalent, lower than last year. CBA's new Commonwealth Bank Place in Sydney ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for oil and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and the extent to which these factors might impair assets. The company opposed the motion and it only received around ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
AWE Limited, an oil and gas exploration and production company, reported a 3% decline in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to approximately 203,000 CO2-e, with production of 6.12m barrel of oil equivalent (BOE), basically the same as the 6.09m BOE production ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... (EUA) to fund a AU$400,000 retrofit of a building that will result in a reduction of approximately 170 tonnes of carbon emissions per year. The EUA was signed between the City of Melbourne, Sustainable Melbourne Fund and Varga Brothers, owner of 460 ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... worked predominately at Bankers Trust. The CEFC will provide financing to renewable energy, energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private investment, help overcome capital ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has developed two new standards that will measure greenhouse gas emissions across companies' value chains and across product life cycles. The Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) harmonizes global methodology to measure corporate ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... energy intensity fell 2.6% from 2010 to 270 megajoules/sqm, while greenhouse gas intensity fell 3.8% to 59.2kg of CO2 emissions/sqm and water intensity fell 2.8% to 555.7 litres/sqm. Dexus said that in the past three years, it achieved a 15.3% reduction ...

Regulatory barriers slowing cogeneration technology usage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... technology that is about 80% more efficient than conventional, coal powered energy generation, produces 60% less carbon emissions and can be fuelled by natural gas and renewable fuels. Cogeneration is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... supply chain. The first stage of PUMA's EP&L statement, issued earlier this year, addressed the company's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and water consumption, both within the company's operations, and critically, down the supply chain. There are two ...

Sustainability measures decline in information technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... is central to ICT sustainability." ICT is a large consumer of energy, globally responsible for 3% of greenhouse gas emissions, said Alison Rowe, Fujitsu's global executive director sustainability, in a preface to the report. "ICT is responsible for 5-10% ...