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Graham Dooley new president of Australian Water Association

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Adelaide. Dooley takes over from Lucia Cade who completed her two-year term as AWA president. Dooley holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Public Administration from The American ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... corporations to discuss climate change impacts, adaptation and corporate strategy. The report found that while climate change science predicts a future in which there are more extreme weather events and brought on by warmer global temperatures and that ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... and ongoing monitoring process of CSG is not optimal for either responding to community concerns or for evaluating the science behind the potential risks. "Both state and federal governments have recognised that the regulatory framework was not satisfying ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... enterprise at the University of Michigan and a participant in the symposium. "I will say, you can be agnostic about the science of climate change, and that is the way that many companies are looking at it, if they have the latitude to shift." Hoffman ...

University of Sydney opens Centre for Carbon, Water and Food

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... approach. The Centre for Carbon, Water and Food has been founded as a response to a recommendation from the Prime Minister's Science Engineering and Innovation Council, which said in 2010 that national priority be given to understanding and mapping connections ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Henrique Miguel Pereira from the Centre for Environmental Biology of the University of Lisbon, outlined their approach in Science. The proposal is based on six essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) which they hope will harmonise standards and fill ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... system is operationally weak," said Dean Paatsch, director of Ownership Matters. "That's the take-away. It's not rocket science at all. If we ran a banking system in the same way we run a system of distribution of votes, there'd be a national outcry." ...

Bendigo Wealth to provide support to Cool Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... support for Cool Australia, a not-for-profit that educates Australian students for sustainable outcomes. Cool Australia uses science, maths and English resources to educate primary and secondary students about waste, water, biodiversity, energy use and ...

Low Carbon Australia to provide financing to foundries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... financial year. The grant programs are delivered by AusIndustry, a division of the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. Low Carbon Australia has developed programmes to assist manufacturers with financing the ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... skills development for administrative and secretarial staff grew from five sessions in 2012 to 18 in 2011. "It's not rocket science - people should have the same level of career development to be able to deliver their best to the firm," O'Connor said. ...