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EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... city of Melbourne. The biggest challenge around this has been establishing a new innovative finance model within an environment of patchy confidence in the commercial property market. But these three projects represent a good pilot sample of the different ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and two other global investor groups are calling on companies to minimise methane emissions from gas and oil production through hydraulic fracturing. IGCC, the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Five Oceans Asset Management is an international equities fund manager that uses concentrated, non-index relative approaches to building portfolios of listed global equities. The company has integrated environmental, social and corporate governance ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The vast majority of ASX200 companies do not provide a sufficient level of disclosure on sustainability risk and disclosure "continues to be of questionable quality," according to research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) will focus on four main themes in developing its integrated reporting framework - the definition of integrated reporting, its target audience, the concept of value and the timing of the framework's ...

AGL Energy, First Solar granted $130m for solar project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
AGL Energy and solar photovoltaic manufacturer First Solar will receive an AU$129.7m federal government grant to help finance a 159 megawatt solar power project. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson The AU$450m project will be built in Broken Hill and ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Omega Global Investors is a specialist fixed income investment manager based in Melbourne. Omega received a nearly AU$170m mandate from the nearly AU$6bn Local Government Super superannuation fund to implement a global government bond strategy that ...

AMP Capital fund buys stake in Indian clean energy company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... includes 60 MW of small hydro projects. Renewable energy generation in India has benefited from a favourable regulatory environment, Seth said. "Since 2002, renewable grid capacity as a percentage of total capacity has increased by almost four times," ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... management board level. Of the four areas covered under the Global Compact's principles, companies are taking action on the environment and on labour standards at the highest rates. Anti-corruption efforts have increased steadily for two consecutive ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has moved all of its nearly AU$170m government bond allocation to a strategy that explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into the selection process, including a specific allocation of ...