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Carbon Farming Initiative grants for biochar research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... demonstration sites around the country to educate on the applicability of biochar across a range of agricultural and land management circumstances, plus research activities to underpin CFI offset methodologies. The North East Catchment Authority was ...

QIC selects Molpus Woodlands Group for timber mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... value and additional income through activities such as the sale of carbon credits, as well as from improved timber management, said James Dick, QIC's head of alternative investments. "Broadly, we want to increase the allocations to our clients to real ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... the extra hours out of employees in a lean workforce, long hours are not sustainable over the long term." Workforce management can be a material issue for the professional services industry, in that a healthy and motivated workforce is central to generating ...

CFSGAM reports top quartile performance in UNPRI principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) is rated as performing in the top quartile of global investment managers for five of the six UNPRI principles, and the firm has reaffirmed its commitment to leadership in integrating ESG considerations ...

LCA-financed retrofitted office building sells for $12.25m

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... The building upgrade included new air conditioning and the replacement of the base building metering and the building management system. Low Carbon Australia worked with Harvest with to develop a tailored financial solution for the energy efficiency ...

IIGCC calls for reform to EU Emissions Trading Scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Scheme (ETS) to ensure its viability. The IIGCC, a collaborative body of investors representing EUR7.5tr in assets under management, is making three recommendations to EU ministers to improve the ETS - a change to the overall level of the EU 2020 emissions ...

Industry welcomes CEFC expert review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Broadbent, a board member of the Reserve Bank. Broadbent was joined by David Paradice, founder of Paradice Investment Management, and Ian Moore, who has worked predominately at Bankers Trust. The CEFC will start from July 2013 and will provide financing ...

SAM targets 2,500 companies for sustainability assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... long-term development of corporate value. The questions cover topics including corporate governance, risk and crisis management, human capital development and the quality of environmental and social reporting. After analysing the data, SAM selects the ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability performance, governance issues become more and more important. The third working group is the Disclosure on Management Approach (DMA) Working Group. This is the part of the guidelines where companies explain their policies, their systems ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... it in a pilot examining one of their projects in India. Opportunity International Australia uses social performance management (SPM), a set of principles specific to microfinance that are used the framework for evaluating program design and oversight. ...