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South Australia one step closer to building upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The government of South Australia has introduced legislation that will enact environmental upgrade finance allowing commercial property owners to access finance to retrofit buildings to improve water, waste and energy efficiency. South Australia Climate ...

Towers Watson outlines framework for fossil fuel risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... a standardised approach to dealing with that, and that's what we're trying to address." The different means of addressing risk are meant to offer options to funds with varying types of operations, from large internal teams overseeing investments directly ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
A group of investors convened by Ceres' Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) will seek to build increased definition and structure to support the development of the green bond market. The investor group released a statement of investor expectations ...

GRI publishes linkage document for EU ESG directive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has released a guidance document that sets out the links between the GRI G4 guidelines and a new European Union directive that mandates companies to report on non-financial sustainability issues. Under legislation ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... because of lack of preparation, according to CDP. CDP analysed suppliers from 11 countries in relation to their climate change risk. (Image courtesy of CDP) CDP's Supply chain sustainability revealed: a country comparison. CDP supply chain report 2014-15 ...

GRI creates two leadership groups for future discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... information, and which embodies a truly multi-stakeholder approach, provides reporting organizations with a broad perspective on risk," GRI said in a statement. The integrated reporting group will discuss how sustainability reporting and integrated reporting ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Institute. Universities in Australia and around the world are doing little to mitigate exposure to climate change's financial risk, or failing to state their mitigation strategies at all, according to the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP). AODP ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... part of that package, ASX has included Recommendation 7.4 to Principle 7, covering how listed boards recognise and manage risk. Recommendation 7.4 says "[a] listed entity should disclose whether it has any material exposure to economic, environmental ...

Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... "Firstly, we need to educate members on what is patient capital. What is the difference between short term returns and long term, risk-adjusted returns? If you're 20 years old and you're giving me your superannuation money and you can't touch it for ...

The Sustainability Report's top articles of 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Australia, including climate change, changing demographics, and social justice issues. Future Fund hires new head of ESG risk management The Future Fund has hired appointed Joel Posters as its new head of environmental, social and governance risk management. ...