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Water risks threaten growth of metals, mining companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... from Rio Tinto's response to the questionnaire. "The criteria must have formal approval from the operation's managing director and be consistent with internationally accepted limits, thresholds, guidelines and methodologies." In its response, Royal Bafokeng ...

UCA Funds Management holds first investor briefing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... environmental characteristics that UCA Funds Management invest to, Baster said. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management executive director, noted that UCA Funds Management's ethical policy requires at least 10% exposure to positive companies, noting Cochlear ...

Two directors stepping down at Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Investment will be filling two directors' roles. Andre Morony has advised that he will not seek re-election when his term as a director expires at the conclusion of this year's annual general meeting, which will be held on 20 November. Steve Newnham ...

CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... the current five years period on electricity distribution and networks in Australia," said Chris Dunstan, a research director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures of the University of Technology Sydney and the report's lead author. "This is the largest ...

Mandatory GHG disclosures for British listed companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... in order to ensure the successful implementation of the measures announced today," said Lois Guthrie, CDSB's executive director. "We welcome the legislation and encourage Defra to work with organizations to promote transparency in order to ensure the ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... business is going to have to make sure that they are ready for the auction," said Jennifer Lauber Patterson, executive director, Frontier Carbon. "There is a lot of corporate governance and risk management process that needs to be established to be ready. ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... paragraph, ACCA said in the report. "I think it falls around the fact that it is a very weak paragraph," said Carol Adams,director of Integrated Horizons, professor at Monash University's Monash Sustainability Institute and an ACCA fellow. "If you look ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
An increasing number of investors have recognised that environmental, social and governance risks matter, one of the biggest changes that Ann Byrne has seen in her five years as chief executive officer of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors ...

Algae.Tec signs agreement with Macquarie Generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... our business and improve our environmental performance," said Russell Skelton, Macquarie Generation CEO and managing director. "Its new technology is improving a traditional power plant. Carbon is now our single largest cost. This technology should reduce ...

Ernst Ligteringen: G4 and the third industrial revolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The newest version of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting standards will improve the quality of ESG disclosures, but governments and regulators need to foster a level playing field in which at least large companies are disclosing sustainability ...