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Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... paper calls for infrastructure investment to increase productivity, and identifies parts of the government's Clean Energy Future legislation as necessary to continue the transition to a low carbon economy. Some of the vehicles for that transition will ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... impacts, physical impacts and law and policy development, and these risks require consideration of not just volatility, but future carbon regulation scenarios, new potential risks and measuring and monitoring those risks over time. Technology impacts ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
More companies globally are reporting awareness of the risks of water-related issues to the Carbon Disclosure Report (CDP), but there has been no change in number of companies with board-level oversight of water strategies. CDP invited 318 companies ...

Local Government Super wins property sustainability award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... buildings in Australia in a way that has the potential to revolutionise how owners and managers retrofit their buildings in the future," said LGS CEO Peter Lambert in a media statement. "These building upgrades significantly reduce energy consumption ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... voting process of 23 institutional investors, including Blackrock, AMP, Perpetual, Colonial First State, Vanguard and the Future Fund. The combined ownership interest of these institutions in the surveyed companies was over AU$180bn, representing approximately ...

Study: GRI can boost public sector reporting efficiency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... requirements and transition to GRI sustainability reporting: for transparency, accountability, and a brighter national and global future." See Also: More than 3,000 respond to GRI comment periods ESG disclosures relevant to investors' decision-making ...

SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... idea to the domestic Australian market, SEFA has found that the work they are doing to build the pipeline of potential future projects is part of the capacity- and network-building process, Rickards noted. SEFA is targeting market-like returns, Rickards ...

Bendigo Wealth to provide support to Cool Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... statement. "Cool Australia will also help us shape our thinking as we develop socially responsible investment solutions for this future generation of adults concerned about their footprint on this planet."

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... carbon abatement technology, how it has helped develop a robust market for financing those investments, and the fund's future as the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) readies for launch. Meg McDonald, chief operating officer, CEFC RA: How does ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... leadership in origination of carbon assets, but scarcity again will hinder development of a market for the foreseeable future. "There are two angles - either a straight-forward agricultural origination that happens to have an overlay of assets through ...