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Australian property continues to lead GRESB performers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Australian property companies and funds outperform regional peers in implementing sustainability strategies into their portfolios, according to the third Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). The 42 listed and private company and fund ...

PRI commitment spurs high-level action by Neuberger Berman

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... said Lucas Rooney. " Secondly, there is a groundswell inside our firm in terms of the benefit of investment return and/or risk reduction from garnering insights into companies' quality by assessing ESG factors, and thirdly, there seemed a lot of interest ...

Retail supply chain policies pose sustainability challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... total cost of goods sold," the report said. "Relocation into areas with the cheapest labour typically comes with additional risk in terms of quality, lead times and sweatshop issues." The AMP Capital report by sustainable research analyst Mans Carlsson-Sweeny ...

The UpSide Interview: Geoff Sinclair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainable Australia? The interviews focus on topics ranging from "from leading global agreement negotiations to dealing with risk in a climate change constrained world." Kimmorley, who formerly worked as policy offer- emission reductions at the New ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... on services such as water, land, biomass and climate control, but also offers information for strategic consideration of risk and return, according to Cornis van der Lugt, an environmental consultant. Cornis van der Lugt Although the concept of natural ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Challenger Infrastructure Fund and Challenger Diversified Property Fund and previously served as a board member and chair of the risk committee of hedge fund Artesian Capital Management. Skarbek is the executive director of ClimateWorks Australia. She ...

Integrated reporting a tool to telling value creation story

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Integrated reporting offers organisations a framework to address the fact that the range of risks and opportunities that can affect long-term value generation are not always captured by the reporting boundaries of current year financial measures, according ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Sustainability reports provide external parties such as investors the opportunity to assess a company's performance to long term goals, and provides stakeholders with an opportunity to engage with the process of achieving sustainable targets, said panellists ...

Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... investment be made available by the end of 2012. According to Kirsten Spalding at the Ceres Investor Network for Climate Risk, investor interest on energy efficiency in buildings has being stymied by: "First, the absence of aggregation mechanisms for ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
Institutional investors globally are conducting climate change risk assessments of portfolios, with 26% making changes to their investment strategy or decision-making as a result, according to a Mercer study commissioned by international climate change ...