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Senate rejects CPM repeal, business calculates liabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... of the CPM, and we would see it go to the new Senate. There are still a lot of ifs, buts, and maybes. The next fork in the road is what does the government's replacement policy look like." The federal government has proposed to eliminate the carbon price ...

Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... government "welcomed" the recommendations of the Resource Revenue Transparency Working Group. With Canada going further down the road to its mandatory disclosure regime, groups such as Publish What You Pay (PWYP) will continue their work engaging with ...

Natural Capital Declaration named biodiversity champion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
The Natural Capital Declaration (NCD) has been named a Biodiversity Champion by the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). CBD recognised NCD for its contribution to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. ...

bankmecu: integrated reporting develops integrated thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Australia's first 100% customer owned bank, is one of three Australian companies to participate in the IIRC's pilot programme to road-test the draft guidelines. "Our goal was to develop very concise reporting, and we drew not only on our sustainability ...

Foresters Community Finance starts social entrepreneur fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... their development," she said. "Our Early Stage Social Enterprise Fund has been designed with a view put recipients on the road to long-term sustainability. Through capital investment and access to our skills and knowledge network, recipients will be ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... the only currently approved methodology that does not entail destructive sampling. Both sites are in Victoria - Old Gobur Road, Merton, is located in Northeast Victoria, and the other, Whirrakee Wedderburn, is located near the Mt Korong Nature Conservation ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... lot of information that is around now about what's happening internationally, and we aren't the only ones moving down the road of emissions trading scheme," Lauber-Patterson said. "There are now 60 countries, states or provinces that have an emissions ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... established performance targets for our retail assets but we are still working to set targets for all our office assets. Energy road maps have been completed for all office properties and these will be used to set appropriate targets in FY13." Charter ...

LGS generating energy savings certificates from retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... noted that the fund generates certificates by using solar panels at its office property in its portfolio at 2-4 Lyonpark Road, Macquarie Park under the Renewable Energy Target scheme (RET). The fund will look to generate additional certificates off the ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
The recently published Australia in the Asian Century white paper is a roadmap detailing how Australia should navigate the opportunities and challenges of the rising wealth and development of the Asian region. Sustainable development is an implicit ...