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Environmental services company declared carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... Low Carbon Australia. To gain that status, An Mea has undertaken to measure, reduce and offset the emissions from their business operation. Low Carbon Australia acts as an independent accreditation body, certifying businesses and product manufacturers ...

Goodman Group announces DIISR building development win

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Corporate Centre Precinct. "DIISR is an existing Goodman customer, through NMI which leases 3,363 sqm at toyotagreen Business Park in Port Melbourne, and we are pleased to be expanding our relationship," said Jason Little, Goodman's general manager ...

OECD guidelines to promote more responsible business conduct

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Co-operation and Development (OECD) and developing economies have agreed to a new set of guidelines to promote more responsible business conduct by multinational enterprises (MNEs). The updated Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises state that MNEs ...

Companies investing in sustainable operations showing returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... five Australian organisations, including Blackmores and Woolworths, has shown that companies that invest in sustainable business operations and incorporate ESG factors into their financial reporting are seeing returns on investment much sooner than anticipated. ...

Investor Profile: Colonial First State Global Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) is a global asset management business with A$145.5bn in funds under management. A signatory to the UNPRI, CFSGAM integrates ESG analysis into all levels of its investment process. Here, Amanda McCluskey ...

ANZ publishes interim corporate responsibility report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... online staff training program to take greater account of social and environmental risks and opportunities when making business decisions, with reference to the sensitive sector policies. In areas like "bridging urban and rural economic and social divides" ...

Renewable energy could meet up to 80% of global supply by 2050: IPCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... end of the scenarios assessed by the researchers, representing cuts of around a third in greenhouse gas emissions from business-as-usual projections, could assist in keeping concentrations of greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million. This could contribute ...

KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability at KPMG (pictured at left). "It's about strategic competitive advantage and cost reduction - all the core business agenda issues. The survey shows that there's a shift towards a mainstreaming of sustainability in people's minds, but of ...

Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... managers is apply a sustainability filter," Goss said. "We have an approach where across all the aspects of a manager's business, people and processes, we have what we call traffic lights - a manager is good at this, not so good at that - and some of ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... who completed the firm's global employee engagement survey. "The 2010 assessment prompted additional coverage of our Business Resilience and Recovery Programme," the company said. The stakeholder assessment drew praise from Edgerton. "In terms of workplace ...