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NAB endorses natural capital declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... habitats of people." The Natural Capital Declaration has been developed by the United Nations Environment Programme's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), the UK-based tropical forest think-tank the Global Canopy Programme (GCP) and Latin American business ...

Sunshine Coast TAFE certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Also: Environmental Upgrade Agreements vehicle for green investment Low Carbon Australia partners with Macquarie Equipment Finance

Environmental Upgrade Agreements vehicle for green investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... view," said Scott Bocskay, chief executive of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund, which administers environmental upgrade finance on behalf of the City of Melbourne. "It delivers to a building owner new opportunities to unlock cash flows available to improve ...

RIAA: responsible investment funds grew 8% in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Core responsible investment, which RIAA defines as including managed responsible investment (RI) portfolios, community finance, responsible investment portfolios of charities and client portfolios of financial adviser, rose 8% in 2010-11 to AU$19.55b ...

Low Carbon Australia partners with Macquarie Equipment Finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia and Macquarie Equipment Finance have established an Energy Efficient Asset Financing Program to stimulate uptake of clean energy technologies in existing commercial buildings. The Energy Efficient Asset Financing Program will provide ...

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... processes and through to creating value through sustainability reporting. "It's aimed at members who are actually the finance professionals in an organisation - CFOs or the finance department," said Geraldine Magarey, the institute's manager sustainability. ...

Climate Bond Standard to screen green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... over six months and included a public consultation period and input from industry experts including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Standard & Poor's, Aviva Investors and KPMG. Approximately US$1tr in in mitigation and adaptation investments ...

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... bonds from issuers such as the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Nordic Investment Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the IRDB, the Asian Development Bank and the African Development Bank not only because they "constitute the vast ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... education resource to increase access to financial education via local seminars in branches, online education and personal finance and business management short courses. This year, the bank also identified three future areas of materiality - demographic ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... workplace culture. While benchmarking of these measures is unavailable for 2011, both of these results are comparable to finance industry medians from 2010." The bank is also continuing its work to increasing the representation of women in executive ...