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Global banks launch voluntary Green Bond Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... of a green bond. By ensuring that there is adequate information, investors are better able to evaluate the environmental impact of a potential green bond investment. The principles also assist underwriters by moving issuers towards standard disclosures ...

SVA names Mark Herbertt Queensland director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... social enterprises in collaborative projects with local, state and federal government, SVA said. SVA also manages the Social Impact Fund, which has granted a loan to Ability Enterprises in Toowoomba. Ability's social goal is to create 60 jobs for people ...

Climate Bonds Standard tackles low-carbon transport

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... transport today, and will not only result in a significant increase in energy use, congestion and CO2 emissions but also impact wider development ambitions," Allen Allen said. " Eligibility criteria for existing urban electric rail assets and electric ...

NAB, bankmecu, Stockland on Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... statutory accounting and the full GRI reporting as well. "The report shouldn't be measured by the number of pages, but the impact on the readers, and that's what I'm taking from this new framework," he said. "We've gotten too hung up around compliance ...

Potential impact investment market estimated at $32 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The potential impact investment market is estimated at AU$32 billion over the next decade, but current capital commitments and active investors are small, relative to what is needed to achieve that figure, according to a recent report. David Rickards ...

Video Panel: Ethical Investments: Design and Communication

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... products in the areas of superannuation, funds management and wealth management, how activities such as ESG integration and impact investments can result in products that can do well for investors while doing good for the wider community, too, and how ...

Integrated Reporting framework launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... capital, whereas now the framework that we have in hand is more clearly defined in terms of how providers of financial capital impact upon the interest of other stakeholders, so the concept of audience has broadened out," he said. "The current framework ...

More Australian companies report corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
More than 80% of leading Australian companies report in the area of corporate responsibility, according to KPMG. KPMG has issued its 8 th Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting a global analysis of 4,100 companies. Overall, 82% of Australian companies ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... and industrial real estate developer, managing energy, gas, water and carbon dioxide emissions because of their outsized impact on their assets, Dawson said. Dawson noted that the average age of buildings in their property portfolio is 25 years, meaning ...

GRI, RAFI to collaborate on human rights reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... by these thousands of companies is a hugely valuable resource, which can be leveraged to measure and manage human rights impact and to scale up the contribution business makes globally to improving human rights standards." RAFI also looks forward to ...