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Kenyan bank endorses Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... natural capital in maintaining a sustainable global economy. Natural capital is described as the planet's natural assets - soil, air, water, flora and fauna - and the ecosystem services resulting from those assets. Ecosystem goods and services "constitute ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... consideration as an economic ecological and social asset. Natural capital is described as the planet's natural assets - soil, air, water, flora and fauna - and the ecosystem services resulting from those assets. Ecosystem goods and services "constitute ...

Low Carbon Australia financing for local council upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Community Energy Efficiency Program towards an AU$739,163 project. The shire will upgrade Cardina Life's heating, ventilation and air conditioning, install a heat pump to replace its electric hot-water unit, a lighting upgrade and a microturbine cogeneration ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... variously, installation of a trigeneration system, high efficiency chillers, cooling towers, lighting system upgrades, heating and air conditioning units and controls, occupancy sensors and double glazing. Approximately 50 owners have approached the ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... the fracking risk disclosure guidelines issued by the Investor Environmental Health Network, calling for the minimisation of air emissions from fracking operations. "Methane is more than twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas ...

SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) has made its first loan to a Queensland social enterprise that will provide accommodation to people in Cairns and Indigenous people from Cape York who travel to Cairns for health services. SEFA has loaned AU$450,000 ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... environmental side, they're looking at things like biodiversity, land use, climate change and vulnerability to climate change, air pollution, energy security, water security, waste management, to name a few issues. On the social side, there are things ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
More than 1800 companies joined the UN Global Compact in 2011, a 54% increase over 2010 growth figures, but an annual survey showed that while signatories are building environmental and social factors into strategies and policies, there are wide gaps ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $1.6m Ipswich building upgrade

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... retail building in Ipswich, Queensland. The redevelopment of Trident's Limestone Street Centre featured upgrades to lighting, air-conditioning and a building management system. The three-month building project is expected to produce annual energy savings ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... were 145 kilotons, a 22% increase compared to the first quarter of 2011. SAP attributes this increase to a 45% increase in air travel, a 7% increase in company car emissions and a 7% increase in employees. SAP reporting putting measures in place to improve ...