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AfricaSIF to survey ESG integration into African investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... The Africa Sustainable Investment Forum ( AfricaSIF.org ), a pan-African network promoting investment in sustainable development, has launched a research project to gauge how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are integrated into investment ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... investor interest in green bonds should spur the Australian government to consider selling green bonds to fund the development of the national broadband network. Sean Kidney "There's a flight to yield with quality," Kidney told The Sustainability Report. ...

Foresters finances Eating Disorders Victoria service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... selected by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). SEDIF was established to improve social enterprises' access to finance to help them grow their ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... believes that the world is entering a period of transformational change, Dougherty said, and this belief has led to the development of a framework to consider the integration of ESG factors into the value chain. "We think we're in transformational change ...

NAB funds second Environmental Upgrade Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Management and Low Carbon Australia have signed an environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) with the Suleman property development group to fund the retrofit of a Melbourne office block. 470 Collins St Photo courtesy Sustainable Melbourne Fund The agreement ...

Omega Global Investors hires investment research analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... quantitative analyst for five years. He specialises in quantitative research and analysis, valuation modelling and system development, Omega said in a media statement. He holds a bachelor of mechanical engineering and a graduate diploma in applied econometrics. ...

CFI up and running, albeit more slowly than expected

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... try to comply with the 90 day timeframe that they initially set out." De Wit noted that given that the CFI is a new development in Australia, and that there is an onus on the department to approve projects that are robust and proscriptive in terms of ...

The UpSide Interview: Geoff Sinclair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Geoff Sinclair, head of carbon sales and trading, Standard Bank, about how UK banks have made profits out of the Clean Development Mechanism, and the implications for Australian banks. 09. The Upside - Geoff Sinclair from Hunter Gatherer on Vimeo. Kimmorley ...

GRI opens comment on anti-corruption, GHG guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... set of standards jointly released by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the ISO 14064 standard produced by the International Standards Organization for Standardization. "It's important that the ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... helping us achieve this". Stock recently retired from Origin Energy, after working as executive general manager, major development projects and an Australia Pacific LNG director. He was responsible for Origin's major capital projects in upstream petroleum ...