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Colonial First State Global Asset Management reports on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Superannuation Investors." CFSGAM's reporting work has yielded additional questions from clients on ESG management, a pleasing development, McCluskey said. "What we're really pleased to see is that over the last 12 months there has been an increase in ...

Ten corporate sponsors for GRI's G4 development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... process. The global sponsors will be part of the Global G4 Consortium, which will advise GRI on topics to consider in the development of G4. "We are very glad that these leading companies are joining us on this journey to improve and develop the GRI ...

The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... the global financial crisis, changes in asset owner behaviours are needed alongside any regulatory response." The development of sustainable investing is likely to be slow because governemtns and institutional investors are historically slow adopters ...

MSCI launches ESG platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... have been building out the new MSCI ESG Research and Index businesses: expanding our sales, client service, product development, and research teams around the globe," said Remy Briand, managing director and global head of index and ESG research at MSCI. ...

Deloitte, GRI to develop new program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... shift towards electronic information delivery," said Cees de Boer, CFO and COO of Deloitte in the Netherlands. "This development is already very important in financial reporting and is increasingly being used for both numerical and textual non-financial ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... detrimentally impacting on local and international competitiveness of major industries such as mining, and encourages the development and use of low-carbon technology. The council originally developed its climate change policy in 2006 for use as input ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... report noted a host of subsidies, direct government expenditure, regulatory instruments, support for research and development and other measures that had an effect of generating a cost for the abatement achieved by policies. The report concluded that ...

Swan: carbon price vital for first-rate, first-world economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... economy into the future," Swan said. "Just like the global economy was propelled forward in the decade to now by rapid development in communications technology, success in the coming decades will be powered by cleaner energy innovation. "The only way ...

New water accounting standard to measure quantity, rights and obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... reporting responsibilities might not adopt the water standard in the short term. For her part, she compared AWAS to the development of the self-generating and regenerating assets (SGARA) standard and their application to entities such as wine companies ...

Australia well placed to implement ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian Financial Markets Association and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association have contributed to the development of the legal and transactional frameworks for emissions trading in Australia. "Australia's financial markets capabilities ...