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Only 4% of CDP respondents see high risks with carbon pricing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... replied. "The majority of companies considered it very likely, and on occasion virtually certain that the carbon pricing risk impact would materialise," the report said. "Noteworthy, particularly in light of many public discussions, the anticipated magnitude ...

Carbon tax passes Senate, pricing concerns remain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian Senate has passed the Clean Energy Future legislative package, starting the countdown to the 1 July 2012 launch of a carbon pricing regime. But while businesses have short term certainty with the package's passage, they will still have ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... AU$400m from the government's proposed Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) to go to funding environmental assessments of the impact of coal seam gas mining. Windsor has also called for new coal seam gas mining exploration licenses to be halted until scientific ...

Variability in level of ASX100 supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
ASX100 companies are disclosing their environmental and social impacts on upstream and downstream supply chains, but there is significant variability in disclosures within and between industry sectors and room for improvement, according to a joint report ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian government has agreed to undertake a pilot of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), with Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson announcing that the government will provide AU$12.7m to support ...

MSCI to collaborate on Access to Nutrition Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
MSCI will provide research and analysis for the Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) Project, a collaboration between the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the Wellcome Trust, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The ATNI Project's goal ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are looking to apply environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis to fixed income portfolios. Investment professionals say the trend towards using ESG factors as part of the fixed income investment process is a work in ...

75% of ASX100 exposed to corruption in high-risk countries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... and Investments Commission (ASIC), and also resulted in AWB losing its monopoly export powers. See Also: Social risk: the impact on the Australian cattle industry

Dean Paatsch launches new governance advisory firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... subscribers will "underwrite" a research programme that will highlight "governance issues or market practices that negatively impact ownership rights," the company said at its launch. "You could say that there is a bit of 'once more, with feeling' here ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC)'s new Low-Carbon Finance Working Group will play a stakeholder role with "green" financing institutions both domestically and overseas, consulting with the institutions being established by governments to ...