Search Results

Showing 2061 - 2070 of 2291 results for "risk"

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
There has been a 12% drop in the number of listed Australian companies identifying a carbon price as a business risk, indicating their increasing comfort with the pricing regime, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project 's Australia and New Zealand ...

Capturing the upside potential of Australia's carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... carbon permits are at a low price, and companies that are taking early action could purchase hedges at a cheap price now. "The risk of doing nothing is greater than the risk of early action," he said. "A lot of people have chosen to do nothing, but if ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Companies should be assessing the full range of strategic options of response to the carbon pricing mechanism, 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 ...

Environmental, operating risk to unconventional oil projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... historically high price of oil is fuelling the economics of unconventional petroleum projects, but investors must factor in greater risk from environmental liabilities such as marine hydrocarbon spills and ongoing operational costs when assessing integrated ...

Commonwealth Bank reports increased customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... suppliers by asking them to provide information on sustainability practices in areas including occupational health and safety, risk management, human rights, community investment, governance and environmental performance as an automatic part of the tender ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... that are growing in Asia impact on their customer base and the markets that they sell to. It's a strategic issue, also a risk issue in terms of competitiveness. In the new market that's coming up, who are the new players?" Companies that have integrated ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... increasingly aware of how the trends and goals that are central to the white paper impact on their decisions, both in terms of risk mitigation and opportunity seeking. "Insofar as the economic development themes are integral to the question that society ...

Australian infrastructure underprepared for climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... the government side, the report said that government policy is fragmented, lacking a national approach to managing climate risk to major infrastructure, with policy implementation left ot local councils "the least resourced and most decentralised level ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... understanding of the risks to assets that climate change could bring, there has not broad-based action to mitigate or hedge that risk, according to AODP executive director Julian Poulter. "The conclusion is stark and grim one for trustees that haven't ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... and poor water quality in the past five years, CDP said. At the same time, more companies are reporting awareness of water risk, with 68% identifying water as a substantial risk to their business, up from 59% in 2011. The majority of companies - 62% ...