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Optus CR discloses responsible marketing, customer service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Telecommunications provider Optus said responsible marketing, customer service and safety, driving innovation and uptake of technology and building social inclusion were all material issues to their corporate responsibility (CR) goal. Optus, a subsidiary ...

CDP: U.S. farmers' GHG disclosures and management varied

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The agricultural sector will be heavily impacted by effects of climate change, but a study of U.S. suppliers of tomatoes and potatoes shows a widely diverging capability to report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and identify areas of successful emissions ...

Elders seeking new markets for live cattle export

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Elders has sought out new customers for its long-haul live export cattle trading division while noting ongoing uncertainty around Indonesian live cattle exports. Elders reported a consolidated loss after tax of AU$395.3m for the 2010/2011 fiscal year ...

Durban agreements to impact Australia's ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Although the multi-country climate change talks in Durban failed to yield a comprehensive treaty, the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) did result in extensions to programs that ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The launch of the Carbon Farming Initiative brings opportunities for landholders to generate tradeable carbon credits from carbon abatement and sequestration activities. At the moment, the CFI only recognises three procedures to generating carbon credits ...

CSL reports new anti-corruption policy, lower emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Biopharmaceutical company CSL adopted a new anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy, lowered lost time injury frequency rates (LTIFR) by 30% and lowered energy consumption, greenhouse gas and waste intensity per unit of vaccine and plasma production ...

Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The use of renewable energy resources in electricity generation is expected to grow at 6% per year between now and 2035, according to Professor Quentin Grafton, executive director and chief economist of the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). ...

Sunshine Coast TAFE certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia has announced Sunshine Coast TAFE (SCT) as the country's first educational institution in to be certified under its Carbon Neutral Program. SCT TAFE has achieved a 12% energy cost reduction and a 7 % overall energy consumption reduction ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreements vehicle for green investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Environmental Upgrade Agreements (EUAs), a new category of tri-partite lending vehicles, have been created for use in commercial buildings in New South Wales and the City of Melbourne. EUAs provide longer term, fixed rate debt facilities for owners ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The social and environmental supply chain policies and disclosures of ASX-listed companies has come under renewed scrutiny, with Net Balance concluding ASX100 companies do not uniformly disclose those supply chain impacts, and the Australian Council ...