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Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... limited to environmental considerations and risk minimisation, but is rather the search for shareholder value while generating positive social, environmental and economic impacts. As an example, Sharma cites Kodak, which failed to see the disruptive ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... be a material issue for the professional services industry, in that a healthy and motivated workforce is central to generating the company's output. The legal industry is no exception to that, and law firms are beginning to recognise and report on employee ...

Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... site as part of the permitting process as that would not meet the additionality test. Although there are no entities generating ACCUs as yet, in a recent bulletin, Norton Rose noted that there are revenue-generating opportunities for entities in support ...

IGCC and others launch second global investor survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... policies, company engagement practices and investment decisions. "Reducing emissions exposure, while finding the revenue generating businesses of the new economy are now key investment challenges," Nathan Fabian, CEO of IGCC. "The Global Investor Survey ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... use. "Institutional investors increasingly recognise that companies in their portfolios can reduce emissions while generating efficiencies," said Paul Simpson, CDP CEO. "Minimising exposure to emissions regulation in Australia, the EU and other markets ...

LGS select MSCI for ESG and carbon research, monitoring

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... portfolios. "Local Government Super believes that a well-developed responsible investment strategy can both assist in generating long-term risk-controlled investment returns, while also aligning ourselves with our members' environmental and social concerns," ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... at the least amount of cost as evidence that many companies view engagement as a way of managing risk, rather than generating value. "If a company really saw that there was value in engaging with Indigenous people, wouldn't they be trying to maximise ...

Durban agreements to impact Australia's ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... also manages a portfolio of CDM projects and the associated CER credits. COzero has 30 projects in the CDM portfolio, generating 30m tonnes of offsets over a 10 year period. "It changes the way we purchase CERs now," said COzero CEO Nick Armstrong. "If ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... credits from carbon abatement and sequestration activities. At the moment, the CFI only recognises three procedures to generating carbon credits, and industry participants are calling for more methodologies to facilitate the scheme's uptake. Landholders ...

Australia enters the era of carbon as a commodity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... project in developing countries. The projects can generate CER credits. COzero has 30 projects in the CDM portfolio, generating 30m tonnes of offsets over a 10 year period. According to their website, one example of a CDM project that COzero is partnered ...