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Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... integrated sustainability measurement and management requires action on a variety of fronts - internal corporate leadership, government action and pressure from capital markets, such as institutional investors. "You do have some people in companies with ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... will have to register for an Australian Financial Services (AFS) license as part of draft legislation from the federal government. The federal government has released amendments to the Corporations Act that classify tradeable carbon credits as financial ...

ANZ's employee engagement, net profit increases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... financial education, and after 10 months, all savings are matched dollar for dollar by ANZ, up to $500. The federal government in May announced $26.5m in funding over four years to deliver Savings Plus to more than 60 sites nationally. The bank noted ...

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... explained. "We are targeting duration exposure with the Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Index," he said. "We are looking for government or supranational type debt at this time. I suppose there is nothing precluding us from seeking corporate debt, if we ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Melbourne were assessed and a range of energy initiatives were identified. The retrofit received funding from the federal government's Green Building Fund, were recently completed and are expected to achieve energy savings in total of approximately 3,800GJ ...

Elders reports increased lost time injury frequency rate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Elders' live export operations were covered under a revised export control order issued by the Australian Commonwealth government in 2011. The revised order brought "additional requirements for assurance of welfare, recording and reporting from disembarkation ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... example shows that under the new rules of the game, bad news can travel incredibly fast." Bradbury also defended the government's controversial "two strikes" legislation on executive remuneration passed earlier this year. The Corporations Amendment (Improving ...

Australia enters the era of carbon as a commodity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... implementation of a lighting energy efficiency programme - Luz Sustentable - in Mexico. Under the deal, the Mexican government will receive a royalty from the sale of CERs from the CDM Programme of Activities developed by Cool nrg in 2009. With the agreement ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
The New South Wales based Local Government Super (LGS) has completed a retrofit of a Sydney commercial property that will reduce the building's emissions reduced by approximately 85% and allow the building to operate independently of the electricity ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... of coal seam gas manifested themselves again this week with independent MP Tony Windsor calling for AU$400m from the government's proposed Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) to go to funding environmental assessments of the impact of coal seam gas mining. ...