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ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... that would manage the risk for companies. In Australia, it's more limiting in who they can go to - they should have an Australian Financial Services license in order to be able to trade, which I think is a positive to the Australian scheme. If organisations ...

LGS joins Investor Statement on Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... the AU$7 billion superannuation fund for local government and related employers in New South Wales, is an investor in Australian companies that outsource textile production to Bangladesh. LGS signed on to the accord after hearing about it through the ...

RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... and the average of mainstream funds. The report noted that the 2012 average returns for responsible investment funds (Australian equities) was 21.45%, while Perpetual's Wholesale Ethical SRI Fund was the top performing fund in 2012, returning 39.7% "This ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... encourage governments to do more." The ACCA report broke down stakeholders' positions by country as well as by theme. The Australian stakeholders that participated in the analysis collectively said that the weaker commitments were shaped by three factors ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... standard and that they can be independently verified." Greenfleet said that they are "keen" to demonstrate that biodiverse Australian forests are one way to mitigate climate change, and that registering projects through the CFI is a mechanism to demonstrate ...

LUCRF Community Partnership Trust opens in South Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Wales, and Operation Smile and the Romero Centre in Brisbane. When establishing the trust in 2010, LUCRF spoke with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to make sure that funding the CPT was in line with the fund's legal obligations. ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... risks matter, one of the biggest changes that Ann Byrne has seen in her five years as chief executive officer of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO Byrne recently announced that she will step down as CEO at ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation makes first investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... using a combination of Vestas V90-2.0 MW, V100-1.8 MW and V90-3.0 MW turbines, CEFC said. It is estimated to avoid Australian carbon emissions by 250,000 tonnes a year. " The joint venture between CBD Energy and Santander combines the considerable experience ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
A majority of Australian businesses would prefer to see a floating price emissions trading scheme as opposed to the current fixed price regime, according to a survey by Businesses for a Clean Economy. Jennifer Lauber-Patterson Businesses for a Clean ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
Slightly more than a third of Australian consumer staples and consumer discretionary companies have a publicly disclosed supply chain labour and human rights (LHR) policy, and none of them have board oversight of LHR issues, according to research from ...