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Local Government Super names Joanna Davison director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Executives Association Ltd (FEAL).Davison was previously regional managing director for Australia and New Zealand at CFS Global Asset Management (CFS GAM). During this time she was integral in CFS GAM's positioning as a leading position as an ESG manager ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Australian investors have joined a group of 70 global investors calling on the world's top oil and gas, coal and electric power companies to assess the financial risks of climate change to their business. The Carbon Asset Risk (CAR) initiative, coordinated ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... in his remarks in Milan at the 4th Italian National Conference on Chemistry and Energy. "With an estimated 9% share of global energy use and large numbers of older plants, huge plant energy savings can be made with appropriate capital investment." Earlier ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... increased transparency demands surrounding alternative investments, particularly private equity analysis. He said that at a global level, institutional investors are extending their ESG analysis to unlisted assets including private equity. "When it comes ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Christianna Wood has been named the new chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative board, and six directors have been named to the board. Wood takes over from outgoing GRI Chairman Herman Mulder. She is a member of the board of the International Integrated ...

LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... bonds. Last year, LGS awarded its nearly AU$170 million government bonds mandate to specialist investment manager Omega Global Investors. The strategy explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into the selection process ...

66% of BM&FBOVESPA companies publish sustainability data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... published a sustainability report, an increase from 203 to 293 companies between May 2012 and June 2013, according to the Global Reporting Initiative. The BM&FBOVESPA has a report or explain voluntary code for sustainability disclosures, which was introduced ...

Sedex notes increasing demand for ethical procurement data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... evaluate using their own processes and policies. Smith noted that the company has experienced strong client growth during the global recession, which he attributed to the fact that Sedex's approach of collating data on behalf of its collective clientele ...

PRI launches new reporting framework for signatories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... mid-2014, and that signatories that do not use the new framework will be delisted in the second half of 2014. "Calls for the global investment community to be more transparent about how it is responding to the governance and sustainability challenges ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Purcell, policy advisor corporate regulation at CPA Australia, cited The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), a global initiative that has developed standards for measuring the economic benefits of biodiversity and the costs of biodiversity ...