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Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The leader of the Australian Greens party has called for the Future Fund to divest its investments in coal companies. Senator Christine Milne "Earlier this year the Future Fund ditched its tobacco investments in response to a campaign led by the Greens," ...

GBCA: Green Star buildings more efficient, less wasteful

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
Green Star-rated buildings produce around one third the greenhouse gas emissions and use a third of the electricity consumed by the average Australian building, according to research from the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). GBCA's report ...

Global Reporting Initiative launches new G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published the newest version of its sustainability reporting guidelines, G4, at its annual global conference. G4 is a significantly revised document and places stronger emphasis on materiality and will encourage ...

SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... have proven to be very resilient over time." The new units were opened earlier in May by Tasmanian Deputy Premier Bryan Green. Rickards noted that in addition to the benefit brought to the community by keeping the retirees in their social network rather ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... the environment - are excluded from investments. Investments are then made in companies rated yellow for doing no harm and green for positively benefiting people or the environment. The index is weighted by market capitalisation. "Within both of those ...

Transition to sustainable palm oil needs "significant work"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
Many major Australian companies have made commitments to convert to using sustainable palm oil, but fulfilling those commitments requires "significant work", according to a report from WWF-Australia and the Australian Food & Grocery Council (AFGC). ...

Net Balance/ECO-Buy merger looks to impact strategy, policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Cameron Neil, a senior associate at Net Balance. "Since the merger, we've had three or four market development projects for green materials and recycled materials. This s part of a resource efficiency and waste to resource agenda which brings together ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... not short of funding capacity." Whilst national, state and regional governments are establishing vehicles such as the UK Green Investment Bank, the New York State Energy Fund and the Green Climate Fund of the United Nations to encourage financing of ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Most large Australian companies are struggling to find strategic responses to climate change adaptation challenges, "apparently paralysed by short-term profit first thinking, uncertain political risks and a corporate culture unused to volatility and ...

GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... both in building engineering and real estate, is Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and is a LEED Green Associate. "The sense of urgency to manage sustainability issues is rapidly increasing in Asia, and for investors it is ...