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SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 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 ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... ASCI is also supporting the Report or Explain campaign that will be presented at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development - also known as Rio+20 - next week. The campaign proposes that all large companies should be required to disclose their sustainability ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... have been made in recent years, for example to incorporate risk disclosure into financial reporting. In addition the development of sustainability reporting provides a new dimension from which to consider value creation and preservation. "Despite these ...

GRI Focal Point's local angle to sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... into the outcomes document The Future We Want that will be the result of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - otherwise known as Rio+20. The Rio+20 conference will take place from 20-22 June. The proposed paragraph reads "We call ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... We can go up to 15% of the portfolio. We are invested in green bonds from supranational institutions like the Asian Development Bank, and they are bonds where the proceeds have to be used in green projects or climate-change related projects or green ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... equally considered." Advancing corporate sustainability will get an airing at this month's UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20. The Global Compact will host the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum.

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... with Omega expected to increase the allocation as new issuance comes on line. Of that, 2.04% comes from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) green bond, 2.2% comes from the European Investment Bank (EIB) green bond and 0.72% comes from the World Bank Green ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Indigenous community and civil society groups to achieve the outcomes. Glen Brennan, head of Indigenous finance and development at National Australia Bank While each bank's RAP has goals and programs for their specific business strategy, all are aimed ...

Report: US$174bn global market for climate-themed bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... developed the International Standards and Certification Scheme for Climate Bonds, which is aimed at facilitate the development and use of climate bonds through a certification process for bonds and issuers that will provide investors with an internationally ...

Plantic opens expanded bioplastics facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... like Plantic Technologies and demonstrates the Government's continued support of clean technology innovation and the development of new industries in Australia."