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Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... well as Triodos Bank. SEFA has loaned AU$450,000 to Three Sistas, a social enterprise which has bought a former tourism business and turned it into low-cost accommodation service for people coming to Cairns for health services, as well as crisis accommodation ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... properties, selling AU$1.7bn in offshore assets during the financial year. Charter Hall said that it was aligning its business operations to stakeholders' long term interest, and enhancing corporate governance practices. Under environmental issues, the ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... communities more than most, so its stakeholders have high expectations. Just the strategic priorities for the supermarkets business are incredibly broad: "supporting local communities, health and food, supporting Australian farming, helping Australians ...

Climate Change Authority backs Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... statement. The Clean Energy Council (CEC) said that the CCA's decision would let the renewable energy sector get back to business. "It is excellent to see that the Climate Change Authority (CCA) has listened to the renewable energy industry and other ...

Low Carbon Australia and CEFC to merge for 2013 launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... diligence, because like any other commercial transaction, the board of CEFC had to do due diligence on the loan book and the business, to make that judgement prior to formalising the merger."' LCAL has developed innovative models for financing energy ...

Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... clients and services experiences, we feel there are some great synergies there. What we can offer to the government and business sector around sustainable supply chain work has taken a step up now that we've come together." ECO-Buy offers services to ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Meg McDonald. "It is innovative, very definitely and required quite a lot of work on NovaPower's part," she said. "The business model was well developed, so on our part, it was about making sure that we had a full understanding of the objectives in this. ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... book " 2052: A Global Forecast of the Next Forty Years. Mr Randers is no wisher-washer: a professor at the BI Norwegian Business School, a corporate board director and a member of British Telecom and Dow Chemical sustainability council. That he takes ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... organisations and to provide the tools for companies to manage and report on sustainability as a broader way of looking at business performance," said Amir Ghandar, CPA Australia policy adviser auditing and assurance. "There's a very well established ...

ClimateWorks Australia developing GHG reductions index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
ClimateWorks Australia is developing a national index of business' activity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The research is geared at enabling government, businesses and the community to see the impact of businesses' activities to reduce emissions ...