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Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... full understanding of the objectives in this. We are very pleased to do so because we are working with a strongly backed company. While [NovaPower's project] is the first of its kind, it has strong backing from Caterpillar, and that it very important ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance opens third Good Money site

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Shepherd Microfinance. In addition to the retail hub sites, Good Shepherd also works with community organisations across the company to deliver NILS and StepUP products. Mooney noted that in the past year, more than 22,000 people in nearly 580 locations ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... established assurance framework that has been primarily applied to financial reports, the same framework that applies to large company financial and sustainability reporting. Prior to this guide, there really hasn't been a plain, simple language publication ...

More women appointed to ASX200 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... more women to boards, leading to more diversity in age as well as in gender, according to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). The AICD ASX 200 Snapshot Report 2012 found that women directors comprised 12.67% of board positions as of ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Dowse CSP, a sustainability/ESG advisory firm, has worked on ESG, sustainability and communication issues with McKinsey & Company and Macquarie Group, and co-founded the Sustainability Business Forum in Sydney in 1999. Josh will contribute regular analysis ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... 33% and payback within three years, with companies that set absolute targets achieving higher reductions. "We find that company investments in reduction projects are generating attractive returns well in excess of cost of capital, however, companies ...

MSCI: Asia Pacific, EU green building market show potential

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... properties offer significant pricing differentiation over conventional property." The report cites diversified property company GPT as a top regional performer, along with Hammerson in the EU and Liberty in North America A majority of companies in Asia ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... of the MCA Water Accounting Standard focuses on an input-output model. According to the MCA website, the model aligns company water metrics into four source categories - surface water, groundwater, sea water and third party water, and four destinations ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Richgro waste-to-energy plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Carbon Australia has provided finance for an anaerobic digestion plant for garden products supplier Richgro, allowing the company to adopt waste-to-energy technology. The anaerobic digestion plant is expected to be operational by June 2013 and is expected ...

One third of ASX100 companies assure sustainability reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... also noted in her presentation that ISEA3000/ASAE3000 can be used to scope which sustainably performance information the company would like to have assured. The report found that environmental data were the most commonly assured disclosures, followed ...