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AMP Capital assesses progress, risks in Bangladesh factories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... sustainability -if suppliers don't pay their workers a fair wage to meet basic needs, the supplier's business is not sustainable, and that will impact on the retailer as well. Progress is being made on improving the fire and building safety standards ...

Mercer hires Alexis Cheang to Responsible Investment team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... and will work with Mercer's investment clients "in helping them implement Mercer's recently launched Framework for Sustainable Growth and addressing corporate governance risks," Mercer said. Mercer has 13 responsible investment consultants around the ...

Farmland attractive to super funds, but liquidity a concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... make a short term return. They are here for the long run and therefore have an interest in ensuring that farming is sustainable for generations to come. "

PRI coalition calls for improved palm oil practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... oil producers to improve practices with the aim of "decoupling palm oil production from deforestation." The PRI's Sustainable Palm Oil Investor Working Group (IWG) calls on all palm oil producers to commit to ceasing deforestation, development on peat ...

Net Balance, Gold Standard report on co-benefits value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... methodology in assessing additional benefits of climate projects included identifying material outcomes linked to sustainable development indicators, exploring the availability of metrics to gauge the outcomes, defining proxies to allow the outcomes ...

Sedex Global partners with World Bank Institute on platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... standards, environmental footprints and governance practices." Sedex, which operates an online database of ethical and sustainable supply chain data that allows suppliers to share performance with buyers in areas such as labour, health and safety, environment ...

Don Henry named fellow at University of Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... climate change policy in terms of alleviating poverty and developmental concerns." Henry will work at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. He served as CEO of ACF for 15 years and was recognised as the Prime the Prime Minister's Environmentalist ...

Sustainable Business Australia named WBCSD global partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
Sustainable Business Australia (SBA) has been selected as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's (WBCSD) Australian global partner. SBA will work with WBCSD as part of its global network to "collaborate on business solutions to complex ...

SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... number of those organisations, we saw that Iman was credible and gone a fair long way of establishing themselves as a sustainable operation." The second aspect of Iman Operation's situation was that the financing will go to growing existing operations ...

IFC, Shenzhen Emissions Trading Exchange sign agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... help mitigate climate change and allows China's private sector to profit from these opportunities." IFC has worked in sustainable energy financing in China since 2006 and has provided loans of US$783 million through its partner banks to 178 energy-efficiency ...