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Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... to repeal the government's Clean Energy Future package. Meanwhile in the US, while states such as California have implemented carbon emissions trading systems, the federal government does not have a policy on pricing carbon. However, President Barack ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... using only the negative screen because we had demand from clients who didn't want gambling or tobacco. In 2007 we implemented the positive screen as well and actively marketed that product. It's performed as well if not better than our Australian equities ...

Mercer study to investigate shareholder loyalty rewards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... short-termism from stakeholders including legal practitioners and academics, corporations that have considered or implemented loyalty rewards, and investors. They will discuss possible solutions, the level of interest in loyalty rewards and their feasibility ...

ClimateWorks Australia developing GHG reductions index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... looking to the underlying drivers and barriers to emissions reduction activity to evaluate why some opportunities are implemented and others are not, ClimateWorks said. "Our research means for the first time national data on low carbon activity across ...

Combet announces phase-out of solar credit mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... mostly wholesale energy retailers - that needed to meet renewable energy targets under the national standard. When implemented in January 2011, the multiplier was 5 certificates for every one megawatt hour of electricity created and was designed to clear ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... and not doing so is as risky as doing nothing at all, according to a new Ernst & Young report. Many businesses have implemented the processes to comply with the Clean Energy Future legislation, but many of those businesses have not gone far enough to ...

OECD criticises low enforcement of foreign bribery law

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... private sectors need to be strengthened." The Australian government will make an oral follow-up report on how it has implemented certain recommendations within a year, with a written support on implementation of all recommendation within two years, the ...

Australian infrastructure underprepared for climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... coastal climate change planning in retreat and local planning decisions inconsistent and often poorly communicated and implemented." The Climate Institute focused on infrastructure in this report because of its role in connecting activity across the ...

Australian property continues to lead GRESB performers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... performance data, all respondents in the region have assessed the energy performance of standing investments and 95% have implemented an energy efficiency program for standing investments during the last three years - with an admittedly wide range of ...

Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... particular roles that can be played by different systems, including general purpose water accounting as it will be implemented under forthcoming AWAS." "A goal is for AWAS to be used by organisations to disclose material information on water use and ...