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Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... for farmlands, around five years for water. It's like a slow build. If you look at issues like food security - there are seven billion people in the world, and they get their food from 11% of the world's land surface. Only 3% of that 11% is considered ...

GRI, RAFI to collaborate on human rights reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... as GRI prepares to become a formal international standard setting body, GRI said. Buck has worked with GRI for more than seven years and is a member of the Technical taskforce of the International Integrated Reporting. He will report to GRI Chief Executive ...

RIAA: majority of Australians would choose responsible super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... invest in a responsible super fund, versus 46% who would invest which only considers maximising financial returns. Nearly seven in 10 Australians - 69% - agree that it was important for superannuation funds to make responsible investments, said Simon ...

IGCC welcomes CCA draft report on emissions targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... the rolling over of Kyoto credits to the 2020 period and would still necessitate substantial emissions reductions in just seven years. "If Australia is to move to deeper emissions reduction targets in future, it would be better to decide sooner so that ...

City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... term finance. What've seen in the market is that EUAs, as a form of financing, make solar compelling. Solar might have a seven year simple payback for a building owner under a self-consumption model, and when you partner that with a 10 or 20-year fixed ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... of climate-themed bonds was US$74 billion last year. HSBC screened more than 10,000 bonds from 2,300 corporations against seven low-carbon, climate resilient themes - transport, energy, finance, buildings and industry, agriculture and forestry and waste ...

MSCI launches MSCI ESG DataMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... use and lost-time injury rates; indicators on business and geographic risk exposure; policies, systems, and targets; and seven years of historical data on ESG ratings and scores. MSCI says there are comprehensive cross-industry metrics, to permit users ...

ACSI: ASX100 boards more diverse in gender, background

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... 55 new entrants to ASX100 non-executive directorship roles in 2012, 23 are former executives, 14 are current executives, seven are law/accounting partners, six are substantial shareholder reps, three are former politicians and two are former public servants. ...

Australian/NZ property continue dominance in GRESB survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... aggregate information on 49,000 properties around the world. Organisations respond to a 42-question survey, divided into seven sustainability aspects. The score for each aspect generates a total GRESB score on a scale of 1 to 100. The total GRESB score ...

EY: Businesses need long term carbon policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... international context as well, EY said. EY noted that the USA has announced new rules to cut carbon pollution, China is implementing seven pilot emission trading schemes commencing later this year and has announced an intention to a national trading ...