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Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... climate change will continue to disrupt weather patterns," Sharma said. "This will remain a major long-term societal and political problem even if short-term focus shifts to other issues. In the meanwhile, firms in countries like China will continue ...

Emerald Wrap launches, joins UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Ethical Investment Services and that all six of Hunter Hall's managed funds will be available on the platform. "The political climate, with both [the Future of Financial Advice] FoFA and the carbon tax, is helping the case for values based financial ...

Clean Energy Council sees CEFC as catalyst to unlock capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... consolidated view of the private finance sector on the design of the CEFC. "When you reflect on some of the public and political debate around the CEFC, there is a lot of common ground," said Kane Thornton, acting chief executive at the CEC. "One of ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... comparison, correcting problems relating to child labour and freedom of association often raise more challenging social and political questions. For these reasons small companies, which typically lack the resources of larger ones, are much more likely ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... gas has never been more prominent in Australia, and institutional investors are weighing the environmental, social and political risks of being invested in companies with exposures to coal seam gas operations. While there are potential financial returns ...

Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... democratic process hasn't served you well, and there's an outside risk that this could lead to social unrest and extreme political movements." See Also: Sustainability a key theme for investor awareness

IGCC: carbon price delay could cost electricity sector $2.5bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... competitive economy that is attractive to investors for the long term. We urge all parliamentarians to look beyond this political cycle, pass a carbon pricing scheme and keep the costs of meeting Australia's emissions reduction targets as low as possible." ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... mechanism or package of approaches. Importantly, it recognizes the need for respecting the different cultural, social, political, economic and physical environments around the world and a country's different priorities (for example, poverty reduction ...

Australia well placed to implement ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... potentially poses long-term risks for business," said Russell Thomas, Finsia's CEO. "As a result and regardless of the political and social debate, it is Finsia's view that mechanisms should be developed to mitigate and manage these risks. "Since the ...

NSW coal miners engage in landmark stakeholder survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Upper Hunter Valley had an acceptable level of support. The social license to operate is an overall measure of socio-political sentiment towards a company or industry and has four levels, from withdrawn/withheld, acceptance, approval and co-ownership. ...