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CBA questioned over carbon emissions calculations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has reported that it has achieved and exceeded its target to reduce carbon emissions by the end of the 2012/2013 financial year, but it included in its calculations of its reductions a re-allocation of 3,500 tonnes ...

DLA Piper: climate change legal risk in property development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
State legislation requiring local municipal bodies to take climate change into account when considering property development proposals are leading to unexpected and unpredictable outcomes that expose companies and government authorities to legal risk ...

ARENA announces launch of wave-to-electricity unit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
The world's first wave-energy-to-electricity unit has been launched in Port MacDonnell, South Australia, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced. ARENA provided funding to Oceanlinx, which designed and constructed the one megawatt ...

Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Political dysfunction in the United States has affected BlackRock's rating of its willingness to repay sovereign debt, according to the quarterly update of the BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index (BSRI). The BSRI focused on the US and what it labels the ...

IIRC asks investors to critique pilot integrated reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Annual reports that are based on the integrated reporting framework are useful in communicating a more holistic view of performance than otherwise found in traditional financial reports, according to an investor review for the International Integrated ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Green bonds could potentially be issued to finance capital investment in the chemical industry, said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative CEO. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds CEO "The latest science shows that carbon emissions in industrialized countries ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Companies that are currently liable under the carbon pricing mechanism (CPM) face uncertainty over their compliance and potential pricing arrangements if the government's proposed legislation to repeal the price on carbon is not passed by July 2014. ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ethinvest is supporting a campaign to have climate advocate Ian Dunlop appointed to the BHP Board at its November AGM. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director Ethinvest, an investment advisory firm founded on ethical investment principles, is supporting ...

MSCI launches MSCI ESG DataMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
MSCI has launched MSCI ESG DataMetrics, a comprehensive set of metrics to facilitate quantitative analysis of environmental, social and environmental data. MSCI ESG DataMetrics can be used in the development of proprietary ESG models and reporting on ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are refining their limited partnership agreements prior to investing in unlisted private equity funds to reflect environmental, social and governance exclusions and considerations, according to Paul Finlayson, senior vice president ...