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Foresters launches Social Investment Australia lending fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
Ed. note: substantially updated throughout with comment from Valda Wheeler, SIA Foresters Community Finance subsidiary Social Investment Australia (SIA) has launched a new fund offering financing to non-profits seeking to buy property. SIA has launched ...

Transparency International publishes anti-corruption report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The largest publicly traded multinational companies have increased their reporting on anti-corruption programmes, but more needs to be done to improve transparency, according to a report by Transparency International (TI). TI ranked 105 of the world's ...

Farming, forestry activities proposed for CFI positive list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency is considering a series of new activities to include on its "positive list", meaning that activities including farm forestry, intensive rotational grazing and aspects of small landfill operation ...

Most Asia Pacific private equity investors monitor ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The majority of Asia-Pacific investors in private equity monitor, or expect to monitor, general partners' environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies, in contrast to 70% of European investors and 27% of North American investors, according to ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Shareholders of Australian Ethical have voted to keep the existing board and executive management in place, rejecting a series of resolutions put to a general meeting. Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical managing director The resolutions had been brought ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
As farmers and land managers examine the new structures of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) that will lead to the generation of Australian carbon credit units (ACCUs), industry professionals say a perceived cloud of political and financial uncertainty ...

Women make gains on corporate boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The percentage of women on ASX200 boards has risen to 13.9%, but it is the state-owned corporations of Queensland and South Australia that have the highest representation of women on boards, with 38.4% and 49.1%, respectively, according to the latest ...

Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The governments of Brazil, Denmark, France and South Africa have joined in an initiative to commit to corporate sustainability reporting, in support of paragraph 47 of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development's outcome document. The four governments ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Environmental upgrade financing vehicles in the City of Melbourne have funded AU$4.9m in energy and emissions efficiency retrofit programs and are projected to save 5350 tonnes of CO2-e emissions per year, according to the Sustainable Melbourne Fund. ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) will work with the Carbon Disclosure Project to develop the framework by October of this year, and are calling on companies ...