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Paris Agreement: implications for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Change Group. "The agreement is good, and it sets a clear objective for where parties want to go," Gerrard told The Sustainability Report. "In a perfect world, from a business perspective, having greater certainty around timeframes and time-bound objectives ...

Investors question payday lenders at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... shares in Money3 and Cash Converters because they're excluded companies for UCA Funds Management," Walsh told The Sustainability Report. "As a shareholder, I wrote to the auditor of each company, posing questions.... This is another signal that shareholders ...

Altius Sustainable Bond Fund certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... that the fund is sustainable, Goodhand said. "We'd gone down the path of developing the product and having a whole sustainability structure around the product, and we thought the next appropriate step would be to go down the road to getting certification ...

Panel discussion: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... CEO of Christian Super; Michael Salvatico, vice president of MSCI ESG Research; Rachel Alembakis, publisher, The Sustainability Report; Alice Cope, executive manager of the UN Global Compact Network Australia. Missing from photo: Ian Woods, head of ESG ...

Assessing net benefits of Indigenous CFI projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... compared to the fixed price under the previous carbon pricing mechanism, could have an impact on the financial sustainability of projects using CFI land sector methodologies. "[The projects I've been involved with] are successfully generating a number ...

ACCSR: Companies lack strategies to manage human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... the knowledge and the skills and the capacities to get on with it." Editor's note: MSCI, in conjunction with The Sustainability Report, will host a panel discussion on Dec. 8 examining the investment risks and opportunities around human rights issues. ...

South Australia passes building upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... savings to the lessee resulting from the upgrade works during the period to which the contribution relates, The Sustainability Report has previously reported. South Australia is now the become the third state where EUAs/BUFs are offered - Victoria and ...

Ross Hill Wine Group certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Hill plans to extend certification of its operations to its products. "Pangolin's team has also introduced new sustainability opportunities, such as turning grape marc, the stems, seeds and pulp remains, into biodiesel," Pangolin said. "This is now part ...

NZ Super publishes white paper on ESG beliefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... recognise that some types of investment strategies lend themselves more to working in ESG issues," O'Connor told The Sustainability Report during an interview at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) conference. "We are always actively ...

GRI links connections between G4, UN Guiding Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... principles on specific issues such as the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights and globally accepted sustainability reporting standards on a wide range of non-financial issues such as GRI Standards, is fundamental to creating the transparency ...