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Climate change top perceived likely risk to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... figuring in a list of top 10 risks based on their likelihood of happening in the next decade and the severity of their impact, according to a broad-based report. Environmental concerns dominated the Australia Report 2012, in terms of the perception of ...

Shareholders to face activist lobbying on Woolworths vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... food people" [Woolworths' logo] exposed to problem gambling.... We see it as a reputational risk that potentially could impact their social license to operate, and given that it's such a hot issue, we'd want to see how they're managing it. Woolworths ...

Foresters launches Social Investment Australia lending fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... SEDIF was established to improve social enterprises' access to finance to help them grow their business and increase the impact of their work in their communities. "The social enterprise market is different from the non-profit market," Wheeler said. ...

Accountancy profession a driver of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The accountancy profession has an important role to play in how companies integrate sustainability into strategy and reporting, and accountants need to consider sustainability issues from a number of perspectives, according to two professors from the ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... manager, strategy and engagement at the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). "I think there will be an impact on behaviour, an incentive as a result of the system itself, and once all the politics moves on, and things becomes free of ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... are being impacted now and the risks are current... Half of the ASX companies [responding] have suffered a detrimental impact and two thirds report exposure to risk that can generate substantive change to business." The majority of the 22 respondents ...

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 ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds have relatively simple structures and credit quality and yield levels similar to AAA bonds, meriting "consideration as an allocation within a fixed interest portfolio," but a lack of issuance depth is a challenge for institutional investors ...

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 ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and two other global investor groups are calling on companies to minimise methane emissions from gas and oil production through hydraulic fracturing. IGCC, the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate ...