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CSIRO: engagement increases wind farm development approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... implementation and community engagement processes", according to a study by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship project studied community acceptance levels of wind farm developments ...

ETI to focus on collaborative supply chain initiatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... poor conditions, so enabling us to drive positive, lasting change." In reviewing their 2011 highlights, ETI pointed to research into Madagascan vanilla production that showed "clear evidence of child labour, and of more widespread use of children to ...

CSL reports new anti-corruption policy, lower emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... AU$26m in the previous year. AU$16.4m of that went to supporting patient communities "in the areas of education awareness, research, advocacy, patient events, humanitarian access and patient assistance." As part of that amount, CSL Behring donated more ...

Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... executive director and chief economist of the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). According to BREE's latest research, Australian Energy Projections to 2034-35, the country's primary energy consumption is projected to grow by 1% a year until ...

Presima joins Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... asset management arm of National Australia Bank (NAB). "GRESB constitutes a useful tool that complements our internal research efforts on sustainability," said Vincent Felteau, portfolio manager, Asia-Pacific, at Presima. "At Presima, we believe that ...

Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... have to deliver before the end of the year, is a dashboard report, where we take ESG information from three different research providers- CAER, RepRisk, and Goldman Sachs, who have done some governance risk things for us. All of that's aggregated into ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... mines, while Coal Mining Abatement Technology Support Package will provide AU$70m in grant funding via matching grants for research into new technologies to reduce pollution. In contrast, BCAs are levied on importers to require them to purchase allowances ...

ANZ's employee engagement, net profit increases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... $26.5m in funding over four years to deliver Savings Plus to more than 60 sites nationally. The bank noted RMIT University research showing that 87% of Saver Plus participants continue to save at the same rate or more, three years after completing the ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Responsibility and Sustainability report, the company said. In a series of interviews, documentation review and relevant external research, the group split their related material issues into six categories - business conduct, Mirvac people, external ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... repositioning on the grading of the building and that has influences on the capitalization rate and there's a number of research papers to verify that the greener the building, the lower the yield. From all those risks metrics, we've worked out a payback ...