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Push to focus on tax reform, transparency as part of G20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... transparency around the amount of taxation and royalty revenue that companies pay. "Increasingly, extractives companies are pursing oil and gas projects with risks, and as they get further and further into areas where there is lack of governance, and ...

PRI coalition calls for improved palm oil practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
A coalition of signatories to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has called on palm oil producers to improve practices with the aim of "decoupling palm oil production from deforestation." The PRI's Sustainable Palm Oil Investor Working ...

AMP Capital lists fossil fuel exclusions for RIL funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... exclude investment in companies that have more than a 20% exposure to mining thermal coal, exploration and development of oil sands, brown-coal coal-fired power generation, and transportation of oil from oil sands. "There were two considerations we looked ...

KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... sectors - automotive, chemicals and synthetics, finance and insurance, food and beverage, metals, mining and engineering, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, electronics and computers, transport, and utilities. KPMG found the companies ...

UCA Funds Management names fossil fuel exclusion stocks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... will not directly invest in companies involved in mining and/or exporting thermal coal, extracting or refining unconventional oil and extracting and exporting of unconventional methane gas such as coal seam gas through fracking. Natural gas, coking coal ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... continues with external engagements and collaboration over issues such as the recent report on the level of disclosure concerning oil and gas companies' hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" -activities, and future engagements over labour standards in the ...

Westpac signs on to Soft Commodities Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... initiatives to reform supply chains of commodities that are grown rather than mined to reduce tropical deforestation. Palm oil, timber products, soy and beef will be the first soft commodities targeted under the initiative. The Soft Commodities Compact ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... predominately smaller cap stocks, she said. The Ethical Investment Advisers Mid-Cap SMA screens out fossil fuel investments, including oil, gas, coal and coal seam gas, tobacco, uranium mining, and weapons, and holds companies in areas including aged ...

PRI finds limited disclosure of fracking activity, impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
Oil and gas producing and servicing companies provide "very limited" disclosure around risks and impacts of their hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activity, according to research commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Fiona ...

CEFC provides $20m loan facility to Carnegie Wave Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Carnegie CEO and managing director. "With our wave energy resource and technology capabilities particularly in the offshore oil and gas industries we believe there is significant potential for Australia to be a leader in this field which can create new ...