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Foresight Group hires Gary Sofarelli for Sydney office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... energy from waste projects. "I'm thrilled to join the Foresight team and am excited for the opportunity to build the business and a team here in Australia," Sofarelli said. "We are already exploring several investment opportunities for bioenergy projects." ...

Moree Solar Farm signs PPA with Origin Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... energy annually - around 24,000 households' worth. "Origin was the world's first energy company to adopt all seven We Mean Business coalition commitments on climate change," said Frank Calabria, Origin chief executive officer, energy markets. "We'll ...

Community Sector Banking hires new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... "excited to get started in the new role," Community Sector Banking said, adding he "will be working towards growing the business, its resilience and capability so that we can add value to the sector in the long term." Community Sector Banking is jointly ...

CHRB launches human rights methodology, pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... will allow everyone to freely compare companies from different industries and see who's more effective at ensuring their business doesn't harm their workers or host communities." CHRB will be produced annually and expanded each year to cover additional ...

Cities provide essential collaboration: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... for people to move to and live," he said. "As we're seeing now, one of the great drivers of successful cities, where business want to be and people want to live are those with the highest environmental standards. Cities can have successful collaboration ...

GRESB launches Health and Well-being Module

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... impacts, improve social practices and set high standards for corporate governance - in profitable ways that make good business sense and reward innovation. This new Health & Well-being Module adds an additional component to the annual GRESB Real Estate ...

GRI, CDP publish updated reporting guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... sustainability performance data for decision makers in the next decade," said Michael Meehan GRI chief executive. "Together with business executives and civil society leaders from diverse fields, we explored which type of information will be needed to ...

Q&A: Madeleine Senior, Bert Rebelo, Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... managing director, Australasia for Northern Trust and Bert Rebelo is the senior vice president, head of institutional business, asset management for Australia and New Zealand for Northern Trust. Northern Trust has operated in Australia since 2007, initially ...

ARENA allocates $8.4m for Normanton Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will allocate AU$8.4 million in funding support for the construction of a 5 MW DC (4.5 MW AC) solar farm near Normanton in far North-West Queensland. Canadian Solar and Scouller Energy will jointly own ...

Global Reporting Initiative to open Manila Office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is opening an office in Manila, Philippines as part of plans to increase its presence in the ASEAN region. Michael Meehan, GRI CEO Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region for corporate responsibility reporting ...