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EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... emissions efficiency retrofit programs and are projected to save 5350 tonnes of CO2-e emissions per year, according to the Sustainable Melbourne Fund. In the approximately 12 months since the Sustainable Melbourne Fund has provided the administration ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Age of Gas" publication. "Fracking" will also be a topic of discussion as part of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20, and also supports the fracking risk disclosure guidelines issued by the Investor Environmental ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... governance. 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 ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... communication with investors and other stakeholders reflects the full range of factors that contribute to the creation of sustainable value," said Paul Druckman, IIRC chief executive officer, in a statement accompanying the report's release. "Huge strides ...

GRI Focal Point's local angle to sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... disclosures 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 ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... related to suppliers, charitable and political donations, and having a specialĂ‚ized unit On the environmental side, sustainable consumption represented the most common environmental policy implemented in 2011, with an overall rate of 68%, with performance ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... private solar powered project. "There is supranational issuance and projects that are going like Thailand and China, and sustainable transport systems in Colombia," Hartnett said. "You can get the see through with green bonds that we need and the exposure ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... range of funds in Australia." The Climate Bond Initiative (CBI), an international joint project of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets and the Carbon Disclosure Project, has developed the International Standards and Certification Scheme for ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... catalysing traditional media companies' push into digital models, according to a report by Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, a sustainable research analyst at AMP Capital. But additionally, there are also social and governance issues that are impacting the sector ...

AusLSA to provide access to environmental measurement tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... platform allowing members to measure and report their environmental impact. AusLSA, an industry-led association promoting sustainable practices in the legal sector, has partnered with Greenstone Carbon Management on the reporting solution, which will ...