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Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... clients and services experiences, we feel there are some great synergies there. What we can offer to the government and business sector around sustainable supply chain work has taken a step up now that we've come together." ECO-Buy offers services to ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Meg McDonald. "It is innovative, very definitely and required quite a lot of work on NovaPower's part," she said. "The business model was well developed, so on our part, it was about making sure that we had a full understanding of the objectives in this. ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... book " 2052: A Global Forecast of the Next Forty Years. Mr Randers is no wisher-washer: a professor at the BI Norwegian Business School, a corporate board director and a member of British Telecom and Dow Chemical sustainability council. That he takes ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... organisations and to provide the tools for companies to manage and report on sustainability as a broader way of looking at business performance," said Amir Ghandar, CPA Australia policy adviser auditing and assurance. "There's a very well established ...

ClimateWorks Australia developing GHG reductions index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
ClimateWorks Australia is developing a national index of business' activity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The research is geared at enabling government, businesses and the community to see the impact of businesses' activities to reduce emissions ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability and communication issues with McKinsey & Company and Macquarie Group, and co-founded the Sustainability Business Forum in Sydney in 1999. Josh will contribute regular analysis of trends and events in sustainable business, finance and policy. ...

Government bodies not effectively speaking on sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... quality of press releases and website information, but represents a barrier that inhibits potential dialogue between business and organisations and the government departments that they interact with. Hale noted that positive approaches affect greater ...

MSCI: Asia Pacific, EU green building market show potential

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... ratings on an annualized basis to June 2012. Hence, companies that lack action in this area could be missing potential business opportunities and may be giving up ground to competitors. For the US market, sustainable features in properties offer significant ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... relationship with supply contracts, license conditions and climatic variables," according to the MCA. "There's a clear business case to the consistent accounting of water," said Chris McCombe, assistant director - environmental policy at MCA. "There's ...

IIRC publishes integrated reporting prototype

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... organizational overview and operating context, governance, opportunities and risks, strategy and resource allocation, business model, performance and outcomes, and future outlook. "By publishing the prototype, we are encouraging businesses to start testing ...