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Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... executive director and chief economist of the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). According to BREE's latest research, Australian Energy Projections to 2034-35, the country's primary energy consumption is projected to grow by 1% a year until ...

Presima joins Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... asset management arm of National Australia Bank (NAB). "GRESB constitutes a useful tool that complements our internal research efforts on sustainability," said Vincent Felteau, portfolio manager, Asia-Pacific, at Presima. "At Presima, we believe that ...

Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... have to deliver before the end of the year, is a dashboard report, where we take ESG information from three different research providers- CAER, RepRisk, and Goldman Sachs, who have done some governance risk things for us. All of that's aggregated into ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... mines, while Coal Mining Abatement Technology Support Package will provide AU$70m in grant funding via matching grants for research into new technologies to reduce pollution. In contrast, BCAs are levied on importers to require them to purchase allowances ...

ANZ's employee engagement, net profit increases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... $26.5m in funding over four years to deliver Savings Plus to more than 60 sites nationally. The bank noted RMIT University research showing that 87% of Saver Plus participants continue to save at the same rate or more, three years after completing the ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Responsibility and Sustainability report, the company said. In a series of interviews, documentation review and relevant external research, the group split their related material issues into six categories - business conduct, Mirvac people, external ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... repositioning on the grading of the building and that has influences on the capitalization rate and there's a number of research papers to verify that the greener the building, the lower the yield. From all those risks metrics, we've worked out a payback ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
The mining of coal seam gas has never been more prominent in Australia, and institutional investors are weighing the environmental, social and political risks of being invested in companies with exposures to coal seam gas operations. While there are ...

Variability in level of ASX100 supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Net Balance Foundation and the Sustainable Investment Research Institute. The report written by Net Balance examined ASX100's public disclosures of upstream, relating to suppliers, and ...

MSCI to collaborate on Access to Nutrition Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
MSCI will provide research and analysis for the Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) Project, a collaboration between the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the Wellcome Trust, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The ATNI Project's goal ...