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Senate rejects CPM repeal, business calculates liabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Labor Party and the Greens. The Senate vote to reject "signifies an intensifying of the carbon debate in the lead up to the April 5 Senate re-election in Western Australia," RepuTex said. The federal government will also start its second pass at repealing ...

Video: Taking ESG integration to the investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Responsible Investment (UN PRI), which is increasingly mandated and scrutinized by asset owners. According to the PRI, as of April 2013 assets under management by PRI signatories stands at USD 32 trillion, up from USD 4 trillion as of the PRI's launch ...

ARENA co-funds South Australia solar thermal power study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... the solar thermal project and the South Australian government will contribute $132,000. It is scheduled for completion by April 2016. ARENA was established by the Australian Government as an independent authority to make renewable energy technologies ...

LGS joins Investor Statement on Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... garment workers. These incidents include the November 2012 fire in a Tazreen garment factory, the collapse of Rana Plaza in April and a second fire in Dhaka in May. LGS, the AU$7 billion superannuation fund for local government and related employers ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... improved returns with limited tracking error," Impax said in the report. Impax found that for the five years to the end of April 2013, which they note excludes the run up in energy prices ahead of the 2008 financial crash, excluding fossil fuel energy ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... violence. Those risks have been highlighted by recent tragedies such as the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh in April which left more than 1,100 people dead. In addition to the sheer human toll of such accidents, they can also pose a reputational ...

Australia ranked fourth on global renewable energy list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... renewable energy projects is led by Asian investors, particularly Chinese investors. The report cites Shenhua Group Corp's April announcement that it would jointly invest around AU$1.6 billion with Hydro Tasmania to develop at least 700MW of wind power ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... role, I set a timeframe very clearly that if we were to be deploying money by 1 July, we had to be fully staffed by early April to consider contracts and then fund them from 1 July," Yates told The Sustainability Report. "We are in the process of detailed ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... TOMRA wrote back and declined to do so, Vernon said. Australian Ethical has put up the shareholder resolution for TOMRA's 22 April annual general meeting. At issue to Australian Ethical is the fact that while the BEST NV business is a minimal part of ...

Applying multiple capitals essential to integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... The IR framework is expected to feature a multiple capitals approach in the consultation draft that will be issued on 16 April. The paper by ACCA and NBA analyses the basis for the roles of capitals in the IR framework, suggests new proposals for improving ...