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Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds are proving a popular option with investors, with demand exceeding supply in a recent regional French environmental bond. Sean Kidney, executive chair of the Climate Bonds Initiative says that the investor interest in green bonds should ...

Cbus CEO David Atkin re-elected to PRI Advisory Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... signatory representatives - investment managers and professional service partners -, a representative each from the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact, and an appointed chair. There are representatives from each geographic ...

Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund funds Brisbane Metals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund has invested AU$1.5m in Brisbane Metals, Queensland-based solar technology company. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson Brisbane Metals will use the AU$1.5m and a further AU$2.5m investment from USA-based New Ventures ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... natural resources, noted Malcolm Thompson, deputy secretary in the Australian government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. "This is not a difficult concept for Australians to grasp, I don't think," Thompson ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... changing climate affect the way our organisation, governments, communities and other key stakeholders view the built environment," Stockland said. "We have made a commitment to ensure we understand these risks and the opportunities for mitigation and ...

FTSE adds three Australian companies to FTSE4Good indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Coca-Cola Amatil, Suncorp Group and Tatts Group have been added to the FTSE4Good index series as part of FTSE's semi-annual review of the index and ESG ratings. FTSE added 21 companies and deleted seven countries from the index series. At the same time ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... different reasons. If you look at the literature that's been done around creating a trustful versus a non-trustful environment. One thing to do is to align interests. The two go hand in hand, and performance fees have a very important role in rebuilding ...

NAB funds second Environmental Upgrade Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank, Eureka Funds Management and Low Carbon Australia have signed an environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) with the Suleman property development group to fund the retrofit of a Melbourne office block. 470 Collins St Photo courtesy ...

ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
ANZ Bank and GPT Group have been named supersector leaders for banking and real estate in the 2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) review. DJSI has released its annual update to its sustainability indices, as announced by SAM, an investment ...

Clean Energy Council: keep Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Council (CEC) has called upon the federal government to retain the 20% Renewable Energy Target (RET) to ensure investment-grade stability and drive job creation in the renewable energy industry. The Climate Change Authority is reviewing ...