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IGCC joins world peers in voicing fugitive methane concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... to fugitive methane emissions risks through international equities holdings. "This is more for Australian investors as global investors in this energy source and asset class," Fabian said. "We do still have exposure to that market through internationalequity ...

PRI, GRESB agree to closer collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) have agreed to deepen their cooperative work to improve the quality and consistency of reporting by global real estate investors and companies. ...

CDSB expands natural capital in new reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... environmental assets, and works alongside professional bodies including the International Integrated Reporting Standard, the Global Reporting Initiative, CDP, and adapts language from International Financial Reporting Standar ds. Guthrie also highlighted ...

Video: Taking ESG integration to the investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Investments, Australian Super, Michael Salvatico, Vice President, MSCI ESG Research, Roger Urwin, Advisory Director, MSCI; Global head of Investment Content, Towers, and Bob Welsh, Executive Director, Sustainability Advisers; President, Environment Protection ...

CleanTek Market platform to connect companies, investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
CleanTek Market, a global online clean technology marketplace that connects technology providers, investors and advisors, has launched in beta. Neil Salisbury, founder, CleanTek Market Founded by Neil Salisbury, a director at Net Balance, CleanTek Market ...

AMP Capital, Goodman join GRESB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
AMP Capital and Goodman have joined the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). AMP Capital, which is one of the largest real estate fund managers in Asia-Pacific, has assets under management of US$20 billion and "believes that consideration ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
When it comes to sustainability issues in 2014, corporate Australia is likely to focus on the transition to the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 guidelines, defining and reducing environmental and social risks in the supply chain and defining the social ...

Addis, Blackburn-Wright open impact investment firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... board of an international initiative - the International Impact Investing Taskforce, while Addis will also convene the Global Learning Exchange - as a way of contributing to the public development of the impact investment and social enterprise domains. ...

CDP: progress stalling on supply chain emissions reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... information. This constitutes a rise of more than a fifth since last year. The 2,868 companies produce around 14% of 2013's global industrial emissions, and the 64 CDP supply chain members behind the request to this supply chain represent a combined ...

Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... licensing of debt finance, it's pretty tight and you can argue that maybe one of the reasons why Australia survived the global financial crisis is that the regulations are pretty robust. The regulatory framework was not designed to facilitate innovation ...