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Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Canada has gone one step closer to establishing a payment disclosure standard for its listed mining companies, with civil society groups in Australia increasing the focus on seeing a similar regime introduced here. Last week, a multi-stakeholder Resource ...

Westpac number one on global sustainability list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Westpac has topped the list of the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World". The Global 100 is an annual list published by Corporate Knights, an independent media and investment research company based in Toronto. The announcement was ...

CDP: investment in carbon reduction yields positive return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Companies that allocate capital to carbon emissions reductions generate positive return on investment (ROI) of 33.6%, creating US$15.1 billion in value, according to CDP's third annual Carbon Action report. CDP's Carbon Action initiative is backed by ...

Global banks launch voluntary Green Bond Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Thirteen global investment banks have endorsed the Green Bond Principles - a set of voluntary guidelines on the development and issuance of green bonds. Marilyn Ceci, managing director, JPMorgan Chase corporate investment bank Bank of America Merrill ...

ANREV real estate investors outperform global GRESB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Members of the Asian Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV) outperformed the global sample in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) in the areas of management and policy, but need to improve their implementation ...

Paladin Energy, Swala Energy join EITI Supporting Companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Australian companies Paladin Energy and Swala Energy and seven other oil, mining and gas companies have recently joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as supporting companies. According to the EITI, 85 companies around the ...

NAB, bankmecu, Stockland on Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The final version of the Integrated Reporting framework has given greater clarity to how companies can report on materiality and content elements while increasing the flexibility of the framework's application by companies, according to the three Australian ...

Potential impact investment market estimated at $32 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The potential impact investment market is estimated at AU$32 billion over the next decade, but current capital commitments and active investors are small, relative to what is needed to achieve that figure, according to a recent report. David Rickards ...

LGS, VicSuper leaders in AODP climate investment index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) and VicSuper are in the top five pension funds for their approach to managing climate risk, but overall, the world's largest asset owners are failing to manage the growing financial risks posed by climate change, according ...

Remuneration consultant disclosure regime questioned

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The rationale behind the requirement on listed companies to disclose information about remuneration consultants is "unclear" and the regime should either be discarded or improved to provide more specific information, according to a report by Ownership ...