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KPMG: top global miners make $1.2bn in social investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Mining, metals and engineering companies make billions of dollars of social investments, yet few companies report on the impacts these programs are having, according to KPMG. Carl Adams, head of mining, KPMG Australia KPMG's Global Mining Institute ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... shows that Australian resource industries can continue to prosper if we shift away from coal and other fossil fuels. Other mining and manufacturing continue to grow, powered by lower carbon energy. While decarbonisation is a significant transition for ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... international community. Under that scenario, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing ...

MSCI assesses future carbon exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... an estimate based on our proprietary estimation model." MSCI generates estimate of future carbon emissions intensity for mining and resources companies in particular by analysing disclosures around future reserves, Lee said. 'For future estimation, we ...

ARENA fund Laing O'Rourke redeployable solar hybrid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... renewable energy to off-grid Australia." One of the barriers to usage of solar power on short- and medium-term projects such as mining operations is the "permanent nature of fixed framed solar installations," ARENA said. "The plant will consist of transport-friendly ...

UCA Funds Management adds Transfield Services to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Management announced its fossil fuel policy, which stipulates that it will not directly invest in companies involved in mining and/or exporting thermal coal, extracting or refining unconventional oil and extracting and exporting of unconventional methane ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Australian organisations and produced a CSR Top 10 list - ABC, ARUP, GHD, Melbourne Water, National Australia Bank, Newmont Mining Corporation, PwC Australia, Rio Tinto, The University of Queensland and Main Roads Western Australia. The drive for the ...

Push to focus on tax reform, transparency as part of G20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... increasingly more obvious." Countries around the world are adopting disclosure payment disclosure standards for listed mining companies - Canada is working towards adopting a G7 initiative requiring mining companies to disclose payments it makes to governments. ...

AMP Capital lists fossil fuel exclusions for RIL funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... of operations, and the charter has been amended to exclude investment in companies that have more than a 20% exposure to mining thermal coal, exploration and development of oil sands, brown-coal coal-fired power generation, and transportation of oil ...

KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... companies in 10 industry sectors - automotive, chemicals and synthetics, finance and insurance, food and beverage, metals, mining and engineering, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, electronics and computers, transport, and utilities. ...