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PRI working group calls for sustainable palm oil commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... the overall consumption of palm oil - Australia imports around 110,000 tonnes of palm oil, which is approximately 0.2% of global consumption, according to a recent report from WWF-Australia and the Australian Food & Grocery Council (AFGC), authored by ...

CDP, CDSB, IIIRC ally to promote natural capital reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... natural step for us as we work to catalyse the adoption of this data into mainstream filings." CDP and IIRC will promote global harmonisation and clarity of corporate reporting requirements to drive consistency and comparability, Simpson said. "When ...

RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... investing more responsibly," said Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO. "This report blows that myth out of the water." RIAA follows the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) in breaking responsible investment down into five categories - screening of investments ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Eliminating the fossil fuel sector from a global benchmark index can yield a small positive return effect with low tracking error, according to analysis by Impax Asset Management. Impax created model equity portfolios structured around fossil fuel divestment ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... conference took place during a period of economic instability, challenging the case for greater regulation; at the time, the Global Reporting Initiative and the International Integrated Reporting Council frameworks were being developed or changed, making ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Greenfleet, a reforestation not-for-profit, has had two of its reforestation projects registered under the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). Greenfleet used the CFI's Sequestration: Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... corporate issuers. We also expect increasing demand from the US$21 trillion of institutional investors aligned with the new Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change." The HSBC/Climate Bonds Initiative report did not include any sovereign bonds in ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation makes first investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... first significant Australian project where they are the developer," said Oliver Yates, CEFC CEO. "Santander is a leading global developer of renewable projects and we are delighted that they have had the confidence to invest in Australia. The CEFC is ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... communication, strategy and public affairs, "The two previous pieces of research broader... Having looked at the ASX200 and the global perspective, the [CD and CS] sectors and sub-sectors are of the most concern. Regnan put together the methodology to ...

CBA receives upgraded score in EIRIS sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... highlighted for its improved sustainability performance, one of five "mega cap" companies to receive upgraded scores in the EIRIS Global Sustainability Report 2013. EIRIS's sustainability ratings assess corporate sustainability performance on an A-E ...