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CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... policy, targets for network businesses for demand reduction and lowered consumer costs. They would be enabled by the Australian energy regulator allowing network businesses to share in the future savings of avoided network infrastructure in order to ...

PRI working group calls for sustainable palm oil commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
A coalition of signatories to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) - including Australian superannuation funds - have called on palm oil companies to comply with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Principles and Criteria. The signatories ...

Mandatory GHG disclosures for British listed companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... organisation to investors and shareholders," according to the government's guidance. The legislation will impact on Australian companies that are incorporated in the UK and listed on the LSE, including Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. The Climate Disclosure ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... that would manage the risk for companies. In Australia, it's more limiting in who they can go to - they should have an Australian Financial Services license in order to be able to trade, which I think is a positive to the Australian scheme. If organisations ...

LGS joins Investor Statement on Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... the AU$7 billion superannuation fund for local government and related employers in New South Wales, is an investor in Australian companies that outsource textile production to Bangladesh. LGS signed on to the accord after hearing about it through the ...

RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... and the average of mainstream funds. The report noted that the 2012 average returns for responsible investment funds (Australian equities) was 21.45%, while Perpetual's Wholesale Ethical SRI Fund was the top performing fund in 2012, returning 39.7% "This ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... encourage governments to do more." The ACCA report broke down stakeholders' positions by country as well as by theme. The Australian stakeholders that participated in the analysis collectively said that the weaker commitments were shaped by three factors ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... standard and that they can be independently verified." Greenfleet said that they are "keen" to demonstrate that biodiverse Australian forests are one way to mitigate climate change, and that registering projects through the CFI is a mechanism to demonstrate ...

LUCRF Community Partnership Trust opens in South Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Wales, and Operation Smile and the Romero Centre in Brisbane. When establishing the trust in 2010, LUCRF spoke with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to make sure that funding the CPT was in line with the fund's legal obligations. ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... risks matter, one of the biggest changes that Ann Byrne has seen in her five years as chief executive officer of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO Byrne recently announced that she will step down as CEO at ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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