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The Sustainability Report's top articles of 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Australia (SVA) has made a AU$800,000 impact investment financing deal with an Indigenous cleaning company based in Queensland that will enable the company to deliver on a large commercial cleaning contact. Green Bond Principles jumps to 25 banking supporters ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... mutual banks that have identified themselves as fossil fuel free lenders. Verwey named Bendigo & Adelaide Bank, Bank of Queensland, Suncorp, Teachers Mutual Bank and bankmecu as potential institutions in which they could invest. "Given the core value ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... fuel free lender. It's a good opportunity for them. Bendigo & Adelaide Bank has made a fossil fuel statement. Bank of Queensland and Suncorp have shown that their lending is fossil fuel free, and we've seen there's a number of mutuals - Teachers Mutual ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) has made three new loans to social enterprises in Queensland and New South Wales, bringing their total loan book up to AU$7.5 million. Ben Gales, SEFA CEO The three loans were made to MiHaven Property Fund ...

SuperMIND calculates costs of mental illness, suicide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... group. Claim rates for suicide were also nearly five times higher for men than women. SuperMIND found that Victoria and Queensland's claim rates for suicide were almost double the claim rates of other locations and had claim rates for both mental illness-related ...

ARENA funds expansion of Doomadgee Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... (ARENA) is funding AU$4.6 million towards an $11.9 million project to expand Doomadgee Solar Farm in north-western Queensland. Ergon Energy is undertaking a 1MW expansion of the Doomadgee Solar Farm, which will result in 1.26MWp of solar photovoltaic ...

ARENA fund Laing O'Rourke redeployable solar hybrid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... MW plant with 134 KWp of solar photovoltaics at Laing O'Rourke's 350-bed Combabula accommodation village in regional Queensland, which will house workers during the construction phase of a major resource project, ARENA said. "ARENA supported Laing O'Rourke ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... GHD, Melbourne Water, National Australia Bank, Newmont Mining Corporation, PwC Australia, Rio Tinto, The University of Queensland and Main Roads Western Australia. The drive for the next decade of CSR will be embedding practice for transformational change ...

LGS Taps AMP Capital for social infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... Capital said. The deals included the Partnerships in Victoria Schools Project, water asset AquaTower and the South East Queensland Schools Public Private Partnership. "[ESG performance] is equally as important in infrastructure as it is in listed assets ...

CEC analyses impact of removing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... increasingly costly gas for electricity generation," said David Green, CEC chief executive. "Recent price rises in Queensland and New South Wales reinforce estimates that gas will increase dramatically in price this decade, as Australia enters the international ...