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Net Balance urges co-benefits approach for carbon offsets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... by Salisbury, Astrid Edwards and Fiona Silke from Net Balance and an international steering group provided insight and advice in the development of the research and conducted a peer review prior to publication. The steering group is comprised of Dr Adam ...

NAB sets five-year corporate responsibility commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... relationships with money deals with NAB's approach to creating fair and affordable financial products and providing customers with advice, guidance and assistance. It also encapsulates programs such as NAB's partnership with Good Shepherd Microfinance ...

Westpac discloses environmental, social, financial metrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon economy. In terms of better financial futures, the bank said launched new initiatives such as Single Topic Personal Advice for life insurance, and new products such as BT Financial Group's Wrap Capital Protection, a product that "generates growth ...

DLA Piper: climate change legal risk in property development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... to legal and financial risks that have to be considered, Baker-Jones said. "Local governments at the moment need urgent advice, more so perhaps than the private sector, because they're much more a target for litigation than the private sector," he noted. ...

NAB's 'Wealth of Opportunity' a new CSR narrative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... relationships with money deals with NAB's approach to creating fair and affordable financial products and providing customers with advice, guidance and assistance. It also encapsulates programs such as NAB's partnership with Good Shepherd Microfinance ...

Beyond Zero Emissions proposes model for retrofitting houses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... existing lenders comfortable with that. We were dealing with institutional banks and not the retail side of things, and so the advice at the time was to limit this to commercial only where the banks were interested to participate." "The underwriting ...

Ann Byrne to step down as ACSI CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds with more than six million members and AU$350 billion of funds under management. It provides ESG research, advice and support as well as offering a proxy voting service for funds dealing with listed company issues. "Ann's direct ...

National Sustainability Council issues macro-theme report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Sustainability Council was established by the Australian government in October 2012 as an independent, expert body to provide advice on sustainability issue and reports to the minister for sustainability, environment, water, population and communities. ...

Net Balance/ECO-Buy merger looks to impact strategy, policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... consulting services, training, resources and events. Net Balance offers services around five areas - sustainability strategy and advice, climate change, environmental services, social and community investment and economics. On the cards for Netbalance ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... and working out how to manage those kinds of risks. What we hear from funds is, 'what we do si follow our consultants' advice' or 'we hug the index'. That's not a legal, investment or moral response for superannuation funds to say we're doing the same ...