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Ernst & Young joins Climate Bonds Initiative as partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
Ernst & Young (EY) has become a Climate Bonds Partner. Matthew Bell, EY Oceania climate change and sustainability leader EY will work with the Climate Bonds Initiative to mobilise capital markets for climate change solutions, said Matthew Bell, Oceania ...

WBCSD, CDSB, Ecodesk to develop The Reporting Exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and Ecodesk are developing The Reporting Exchange, which will be a free global sustainability reporting knowledge platform. The Reporting Exchange ...

CDP Names Climate A List in 2015 report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
Nearly 90% of two thousand companies around the world have activities in place that are lowering their carbon emissions output, according to the CDP's 2015 Climate Change Repor t. CDP has also released its 2015 Climate A List, which acknowledges the ...

Principles for Responsible Investment hire Kris Douma

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has hired Kris Douma as director of investment practices and reporting. Douma will join PRI in January 2016. He comes to the PRI from the NBA, the Dutch professional organisation for accountants in Amsterdam ...

Citi joins Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
Citi has become an official signatory to the Natural Capital Declaration. The Natural Capital Declaration is a private sector initiative that has been endorsed by 43 financial institutions. It is a global finance-led initiative convened by the Global ...

Business response to climate change "creative self-destruction"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
The corporate world is on a path of "creative self-destruction" when it comes to the business response to climate change, according to a new book. Professor Chris Wright, University of Sydney Business School In Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations ...

Draft Low Carbon Transport Standard issued for bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
The Climate Bond Initiative's Low Carbon Transport Technical Working Group have released the Low Carbon Transport Standard for climate bonds. The proposed Low Carbon Transport criteria uses universal GHG emission thresholds defined on a per passenger-km ...

Investors demanding better corporate ESG disclosure: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are increasingly using companies' non-financial disclosures in their decision making process, but nearly two thirds of respondents to an EY survey said that companies do not adequately disclose material environmental, social ...

Origin Energy endorses We Mean Business commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
Origin Energy has endorsed all seven of the the CDP/We Mean Business climate leadership platform commitments. James Day, director, CDP Australia and New Zealand The seven CDP/We Mean Business 'Commit to Action' climate leadership commitments are benchmarks ...

VicSuper publishes annual report using GRI, IR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
Superannuation fund VicSuper reported assets under management of AU$15 billion and an 11.1% net return on its default MySuper growth option as part of its 2014/2015 annual report. The superannuation fund used the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 reporting ...