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Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... strategy. The report found that while climate change science predicts a future in which there are more extreme weather events and brought on by warmer global temperatures and that there is increasing awareness that, as a result of recent extreme events ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Emerson, chief impact strategist at Impact Assets. "The thing that we've realised through writing the report, but also in the events that we've held with Jed Emerson, who came up with the idea of blended value, is that once you get to the institutional ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... political consensus. Andrew Hoffman, professsor of sustainable enterprise, University of Michigan Impacted by extreme weather events and guided by changing consumer demand and pressures on capital, companies are acting to manage risk and take advantage ...

GRESB hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... services, including the annual report and the publication of the annual survey results. She will also represent GRESB at events and will be responsible for strategic development of GRESB's benchmarking services. Quispel joins from Jones Lang LaSalle ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... If responsible leadership is about establishing the governance processes that can support an organisation when tested by events that hit at its reputation and operations then the Australian Football League's Commission is putting their arrangements to ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... identified supply chain risks from climate change, most notably precipitation and temperature extremes, droughts, weather events such as hurricanes and typhoons and rising sea levels as having major cost implications. "This research illuminates fragility ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... by the use of these resources is becoming more expensive - in particular through the impact of increased extreme weather events driven by climate change." The report's authors - Aled Jones, Irma Allen, Nick Silver, Catherine Cameron, Candice Howarth ...

Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... organisations in integrating sustainable procurement practices, including membership, consulting services, training, resources and events. Net Balance offers services around five areas - sustainability strategy and advice, climate change, environmental ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... power plants Protecting against rising sea levels Replacing and strengthening infrastructure to meet more extreme weather events, and Maintaining armed forces to defend borders against immigration, defend resource supplies, and provide manpower for more ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... and co-founded the Sustainability Business Forum in Sydney in 1999. Josh will contribute regular analysis of trends and events in sustainable business, finance and policy. Over the past five years, even through the GFC, institutional investors have increasingly ...