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Mandatory GHG disclosures for British listed companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... in order to ensure the successful implementation of the measures announced today," said Lois Guthrie, CDSB's executive director. "We welcome the legislation and encourage Defra to work with organizations to promote transparency in order to ensure the ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... business is going to have to make sure that they are ready for the auction," said Jennifer Lauber Patterson, executive director, Frontier Carbon. "There is a lot of corporate governance and risk management process that needs to be established to be ready. ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... paragraph, ACCA said in the report. "I think it falls around the fact that it is a very weak paragraph," said Carol Adams,director of Integrated Horizons, professor at Monash University's Monash Sustainability Institute and an ACCA fellow. "If you look ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
An increasing number of investors have recognised that environmental, social and governance risks matter, one of the biggest changes that Ann Byrne has seen in her five years as chief executive officer of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors ...

Algae.Tec signs agreement with Macquarie Generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... our business and improve our environmental performance," said Russell Skelton, Macquarie Generation CEO and managing director. "Its new technology is improving a traditional power plant. Carbon is now our single largest cost. This technology should reduce ...

Ernst Ligteringen: G4 and the third industrial revolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The newest version of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting standards will improve the quality of ESG disclosures, but governments and regulators need to foster a level playing field in which at least large companies are disclosing sustainability ...

PRI to launch new reporting, assessment framework in October

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... October, an undertaking that is "one of the most important things the PRI can do," said Fiona Reynolds, PRI managing director. Fiona Reynolds, UN PRI managing director "It is one thing to sign up to the principles, but you do need to live up to the commitments," ...

Citi analyses impact of carbon price repeal on ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... beneficiaries of a repeal of Australia's carbon pricing legislation after the September federal election. Headed by Elaine Prior director/analyst carbon, environment and ESG at Citi Investment Research, analysts examined the timing and details of repeal ...

Ann Byrne to step down as ACSI CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
Ann Byrne, chief executive of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) will step down in October. Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO Byrne has been ACSI CEO for more than five years, and recently informed ACSI's Committee of Management of her decision. ...

NAB, bankmecu win at Australasian Reporting Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... won an award for integrated reporting at the 2013 Australasian Reporting Awards (ARA). Damien Walsh, bankmecu managing director The ARA awards are intended as a benchmarking activity to highlight reporting by companies and public organisations. They ...