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Climate change top perceived likely risk to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... of two years of flooding in the east of Australia and fires in the west of the country, and is also influenced by the political debate surrounding the introduction of the carbon pricing regime in July. The Australia Report 2012 is a broad-based report ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... behaviour, an incentive as a result of the system itself, and once all the politics moves on, and things becomes free of the political guff, this will then become part of the usual risk/return consideration that anyone will take into account when pursuing ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... will lead to the generation of Australian carbon credit units (ACCUs), industry professionals say a perceived cloud of political and financial uncertainty, combined with a relatively limited list of approved methodologies, is causing potential project ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... it's things like financial transparency, the level of corruption, how fair the judicial/penal system is, respect for political and civil rights. That goes along side out standard measure, which is looking at purely fundamentals of a government, and where ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... likely to have policies in place - doing so at twice the rate of private companies related to suppliers, charitable and political donations, and having a specialĂ‚ized unit On the environmental side, sustainable consumption represented the most common ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... climate change will continue to disrupt weather patterns," Sharma said. "This will remain a major long-term societal and political problem even if short-term focus shifts to other issues. In the meanwhile, firms in countries like China will continue ...

Emerald Wrap launches, joins UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Ethical Investment Services and that all six of Hunter Hall's managed funds will be available on the platform. "The political climate, with both [the Future of Financial Advice] FoFA and the carbon tax, is helping the case for values based financial ...

Clean Energy Council sees CEFC as catalyst to unlock capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... consolidated view of the private finance sector on the design of the CEFC. "When you reflect on some of the public and political debate around the CEFC, there is a lot of common ground," said Kane Thornton, acting chief executive at the CEC. "One of ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... comparison, correcting problems relating to child labour and freedom of association often raise more challenging social and political questions. For these reasons small companies, which typically lack the resources of larger ones, are much more likely ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... gas has never been more prominent in Australia, and institutional investors are weighing the environmental, social and political risks of being invested in companies with exposures to coal seam gas operations. While there are potential financial returns ...