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Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... have begun to or plan to allocate more to "climate sensitive assets" - real estate, infrastructure, private equity, sustainable equities, efficiency/renewables and commodities, and more than half of participants either have, or plan to review, climate ...

Global Reporting Initiative publishes events sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... the Games to inspire lasting change. We want to set new standards and create a powerful knowledge legacy for more sustainable event management. GRI's Event Organizers Sector Supplement will play a key role in achieving these aims." See Also: GRI releases ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... AMP Capital Investors reorganised how ESG research was used by analysts, broadening the distribution outside of the sustainable funds and into the fundamental Australian equities and towards the credit teams, Woods said. As part of the process, analysts ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability reporting, it's very different," Vamos said. "The different levels of ethical investing and sustainability and sustainable investing and the different levels of ethical screens, you've got what I call the light green to the deep green ...

Australian Ethical names exec director business development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... market and rapidly changing regulatory environment we see more and more investors and advisers demanding ethical and sustainable investment options," said Vernon. "Steve brings over 20 years of expertise in marketing and distribution in the financial ...

Integrated Reporting to generate value, costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... value depletors in an IR context. "Some types of industry will as such not function with a business model which is sustainable," CPA Australia said. "In the longer term, this will help shape investment decisions and capital allocations -again, with societal ...

ETI to focus on collaborative supply chain initiatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... collectively to address the complex reasons behind violations of workers' rights, positive change for workers will never be sustainable." ETI's new approach is designed to move away from established thematic priorities towards a collective effort to ...

Highlights of a year in The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance considerations, including events like the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June, we look back at the topics that stirred interest in 2011. The Australian Parliament in October and November ...

CDP: U.S. farmers' GHG disclosures and management varied

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... diverging capability to report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and identify areas of successful emissions management and sustainable farming practices, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The CDP conducted a pilot study with agricultural ...

NAB funds Melbourne building environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... the City of Melbourne said. A second EUA agreement has also been announced, signed between the City of Melbourne, Sustainable Melbourne Fund and the owner of the Kings Technology Park (KTP) precinct at 100 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne. Sustainable ...