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DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
DEXUS Property Group reported a net profit for the 2011 financial year of AU$553m, an increase of AU$521.6m over last year, while decreasing energy, greenhouse gas and water intensity across its entire portfolio. DEXUS owns, manages and develops office ...

Regulatory barriers slowing cogeneration technology usage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
Cogeneration - combined heat and power - and trigeneration - combined cooling, heat and power - offer "significant" environmental and economic benefits to the Australian building industry. But "a complex and burdensome connection process and regulatory ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
Eds note: article has been revised to include comment from Ian Woods of AMP Capital. The Australian apparel and retailers industry is exposed to social risks through their supply chain, both in South East Asia and at home, and companies and their investors ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
Renewable energy investments have appeal for institutional investors as infrastructure projects that provide a hedge against the anticipation of future costs on carbon emissions as well as meet sustainable investment targets. But while global bodies ...

CDP finds 68% of global corporates embed climate change strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
More than half of the world's largest public corporations have embedded climate change strategies into wider business strategy, according to the 2011 edition of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Global 500 report. According to the report, Accelerating ...

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
The New South Wales-based Local Government Super (LGS) manages nearly AU$6bn in assets with 100,000 members, including 60,000 employees working for local government or related employers throughout NSW and 40,000 former local government employees. It ...

GRI and ISO agree to closer collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the world's largest developer of voluntary international standards, and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), developer of the world's most widely used sustainability reporting framework, have ...

Fuji Xerox Australia reports waste reduction, increase in injury rates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
Fuji Xerox Australia reported a 41% reduction in waste to landfill and announced that it would move its Eco Manufacturing Centre to a five-star Green star rated facility in Sydney in its sustainability report for the 2010/2011financial year. However ...

Metcash drop paper supplier over Indonesian foresting concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
Wholesale distribution and marketing company Metcash has tested its newly implemented sustainable supply chain management program by dropping Solaris Paper because of concerns its parent company Asia Pulp and Paper is foresting in Indonesian native ...

Skilled labour shortage potentially increases corporate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
A shortage in skilled labour in a number of Australian industry sectors means that companies' human capital management (HCM) programmes are an important component in risk management, according to a report by Regnan Governance Research. Skills shortage ...