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GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark has hired Ruben Langbroek as head of Asia, responsible for strategic development in the region. Langbroek will strengthen and develop GRESB's relationship with institutional real estate investors, fund ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... potential products or deals that they want to pitch can pitch those ideas and then importantly get help from that group." At a global level, investors are putting more money towards impact investment. J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network ...

Australia/NZ companies lag in Corporate Responsibility Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Australian and New Zealand companies lag global and UK peers in the Corporate Responsibility Index (CR Index), a leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility. The CR Index ranks and compares companies - public, private, partnerships, franchise ...

IIRC publishes Integrated Reporting consultation draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... develop the framework from an institutional investor perspective, alongside with Regnan, AMP Capital, Colonial First State Global Asset Management and Victorian Funds Management Corporation. Three Australian companies - National Australia Bank, Stockland ...

European Commission proposes standards for ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... information - companies are permitted to use the international or national guidelines which they deem appropriate - UN Global Compact, ISO 26000, or the German Sustainability Code, or the Global Reporting Initiative. Currently, fewer than 10% of the ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... "Unburnable carbon" is a concept that only around one third of current proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed by 2050 if global warming is to be constrained to the 2-degree C goal. Unburnable carbon is a risk scenario for companies that are ...

Local Government Super adopts private equity ESG framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... governance (ESG) framework for private equity investment. Bill Hartnett The ESG Disclosure Framework is the result of a global coalition of 40 limited partners, 20 private equity associations and more than 10 leading general partners from 11 countries ...

Climate Institute calls for long-term national carbon budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... to achieve climate change goals, the Climate Institute said in a policy paper. "Defining Australia's fair share of the global carbon budget is a complex task, but it is critical if short-term targets are to be set with clear reference to avoiding dangerous ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... the mining and minerals, property and construction, and oil and gas sectors. The likelihood of more than two degrees of global warming in coming decades means that investors in Australian industries must consider how those companies will be affected ...

Northern Trust launches emerging markets ESG index, fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... then a series of checks on governance and executive independence. The first screen eliminates companies that breach the UN Global Compact, and the other screens remove manufacturers of controversial weapons such as cluster bombs and landmines and tobacco ...