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Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Biodiversity Advisory Board and a director of the Carbon Market Institute, and a member of the board of trustees at the Sustainable Melbourne Fund. Rob Jamieson, Sustainable Melbourne Fund chairman, congratulated Skarbek on her appointment. "Anna has ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund invests in Swanston St retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Sustainable Melbourne Fund has invested in a AU$440,000 environmental retrofit of a commercial building held by an owners corporation. Scott Bocskay The SMF investment will fund the installation of an energy efficient chiller unit at 55 Swanston Street ...

ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... stakeholders, especially employees. Best practice corporate community investments and their related programs are most sustainable when the strategy underpinning them, and their progress, are well understood. Sentiment from the employee focus groups conducted ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... performance to long term goals, and provides stakeholders with an opportunity to engage with the process of achieving sustainable targets, said panellists participating in a discussion accompanying the launch of La Trobe University 's 2011 sustainability ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... income. Asset manager are also allocating to themed investment strategies such as clean energy, energy efficiency and sustainable timber, and over half of investors - 63% of asset managers and 62% of asset owners - invest in climate solutions, with developed ...

IIRC appoints Peter Bakker deputy chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... separately listed companies - TNT Express NV and PostNL NV. Bakker is currently president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a coalition of CEOs from more than 200 companies, ccounting for more than US$7tr in revenue. "Peter Bakker's ...

The UpSide interview: Prof. Michael Grubb

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... a series of discussions with UK-based climate change economics and business experts in The UpSide: what next for a sustainable Australia? The interviews focus on topics ranging from "from leading global agreement negotiations to dealing with risk in ...

US college and university endowments lag on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Tellus Institute. US college and university endowments manage a combined US$400bn in assets, and had historically been "sustainable investing pioneers", but have lagged in recent years in three areas of examination - "1) the incorporation of ESG criteria ...

Government launches coal mining abatement package

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... central to the local economy of many regional areas, we therefore need to take steps to ensure the industry has a sustainable future as we move to a carbon-constrained economy. It is a matter of doing things differently, improving on the past and continuing ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... minor wording alteration that needed to be made, given some of the players in the marketplace," said Scott Bocskay, Sustainable Melbourne Fund chief executive. "Some property trusts are cross-collateralised property portfolios. If you have a portfolio ...