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Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Investors are reasonably empowered about their immediate information needs. The longer term strategic implications to the business will be what they're scratching their heads about." However, even as investors are sanguine about the immediate launch ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... a Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) request for disclosure on water management identify water as a substantial risk to business, but only 55% report board-level oversight of water-related policies, strategies or plans. Marcus Norton The CDP sent its Water ...

ARENA board members, CEO named

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... private equity at Industry Funds management. Donaghey has a background in strategic planning, general management and business analysis with senior roles at Woodside Petroleum and BHP Billiton. Twidell is currently executive director of the Australian ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... down, and now that the general meeting was finished, the company would continue with plans put in place to evolve some business operations, Vernon said. "Over the last 18 months or so, we have been going through a bit of change, such as getting the back ...

British government to mandate LSE greenhouse gas disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Governance Principles and Recommendations. Principle 7 establishes how companies should disclose and communicate "material" business risks, including: operational, environmental, sustainability, compliance, strategic, ethical, reputation or brand, technological ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... amend the carbon price mechanism," said Astrid Edwards, a senior associate at consultancy Net Balance, which runs a CFI business line. "But land based sequestration activities, potentially including the Carbon Farming Initiative, appear to have more ...

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 ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... associated with the upgrade. The Sustainable Melbourne Fund is promoting these three projects - 460 Collins Street, Kings Business Park, and 123 Queen Street - as case studies to continue to educate potential The retrofits have a total value of AU$4.9m ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... that work ourselves, and that's why we have hired experienced analysts for that team. Our two analysts have been in the business for 15 years each. So, again, we're experienced in Asia, but the starting point in Asia always is that corporate governance ...

SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... for health services. SEFA has loaned AU$450,000 to Three Sistas, a social enterprise which will buy a former tourism business and turn it into low-cost accommodation service for people coming to Cairns for health services. The money will go towards the ...