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City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ed. note: This article has been updated with information from Cr Arron Wood The City of Melbourne and the Sustainable Melbourne Fund are reaching out to advise non-residential commercial building owners of financing options for cost-effective solar ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Carbon Asset Risk (CAR) initiative, coordinated by Ceres and the Carbon Tracker Initiative, with support from the Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change, has written to 45 companies with fossil fuel assets, requesting detailed responses before their ...

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 ...

IIRC asks investors to critique pilot integrated reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... communicating a more holistic view of performance than otherwise found in traditional financial reports, according to an investor review for the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). IIRC asked participants in its Pilot Programme Investor ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... feedstock. These are important developments in terms of a shift to a low-carbon industry." The Climate Bonds Initiative, an investor-focused not-for-profit promoting large-scale investment in the low-carbon economy, is examining the inclusion within ...

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
... can be used in the development of proprietary ESG models and reporting on ESG and portfolio footprint analysis. "With investor awareness on ESG issues growing and the market maturing, there is a clear need both for access to the underlying metrics that ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... their ESG analysis to unlisted assets including private equity. "When it comes to [socially responsible investment] SRI investor implications, it often comes down to the headline risk," Finlayson said. "Often, there is the headline risk that if something ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Christianna Wood has been named the new chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative board, and six directors have been named to the board. Wood takes over from outgoing GRI Chairman Herman Mulder. She is a member of the board of the International Integrated ...

LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ed note: Updates with information from Local Government Super, board appointment Local Government Super (LGS) has invested in a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) green bond. LGS CEO Peter Lambert LGS was the only Australian superannuation ...