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Australian property continues to lead GRESB performers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... their portfolios, according to the third Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). The 42 listed and private company and fund respondents from Australia and New Zealand were given the rank of "Green Stars" by GRESB, the only region to be so ...

UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... companies over the coming year," James Gifford, executive director of the PRI, said in a media statement. "It is clear that a company's management of ESG issues does play a role in its ability to deliver sustainable returns to its investors, and users ...

Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power offer biogas services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia will work with Quantum Power, a biogas-based renewable energy company, to assist farming, abattoir and food processing industries to create energy from waste. The alliance between Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power will bundle ...

CEFC Chair Jillian Broadbent to quit as member of ASX board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) Chair Jillian Broadbent will retire from the board of the ASX as of the company's 5 October annual general meeting (AGM). Broadbent is leaving the ASX board to focus on her new role at the CEFC, ASX said in an ...

ACSI to target exec bonus disclosure, voting rights at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... it was necessary to waive pre-emptive rights and the identities and fees paid to advisers and underwriters. "No leading company should any longer claim to be surprised by improvements their super fund investors are expecting to see," Byrne said. "But ...

Retail supply chain policies pose sustainability challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... high-risk country in terms of sweatshop risk." The AMP Capital report said that Billabong is the only listed Australian company to sign up to SA8000, a global auditable social accountability standard, but noted "the main criticism against SA8000 is that ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Calculating the value of the ecosystem in which a company operates can not only provide measures of the company's dependency on services such as water, land, biomass and climate control, but also offers information for strategic consideration of risk ...

Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Commonwealth Bank, MLC and Morgan Stanley, among others, under the aegis of the St James Ethics Centre. It is a registered company, and the group's founders believe it is a world first. It is designed as a voluntary commitment that will seek to encourage ...

Superannuation funds aware of ESG macro-impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... theme of the UN PRI conference last month in Rio Di Janeiro. "To date, most ESG integration and activity occurs at the company level, predominantly focused on alpha generation and preservation. Generally, it aims to ensure that all material ESG factors ...

ASX report shows companies' progress on gender diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... companies' disclosures on gender diversity, and has developed a traffic light system to rate them. A red light, or 1, means the company has provided no or minimal details on gender diversity, an amber light, or 2, means the company meets three levels ...