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Paper guides investors to ESG investment integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... from climate change's impact on bottom lines and increased costs of carbon regulations, to companies' reliance on large, global workforces and the heightened exposure to labour disruptions across geographies and through supply chains, to access to scare ...

R. M. Williams Agricultural Holdings to fund NT property conservation with carbon rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Country program. Law firm Baker and McKenzie advised RMWAH on the deal. Martijn Wilder, a partner at Baker and McKenzie and global head of the firm's Environmental Markets practice, represented RMWAH and will be chair of the independent committee to ...

AGL wins three awards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... for the ASX 200/ NZX 50. AGL ranks as one of the world's leading electric utilities in sustainability performance on the global Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for 2010/11. AGL was the only Australian company to be named among the 13 ...

Carbon price will capture mines' fugitive emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... technologies." The ICMM is a coalition of 20 mining and metals companies and 31 national and regional mining associations and global commodity associations. It was established in 2001 to improve sustainable development performance in the mining and metals ...

ACSI release governance guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... encourages companies to disclose their ESG issues in a form that is consistent with existing disclosure frameworks, such as the Global Reporting Initiative and the Carbon Disclosure Project," the guidelines state. The guidelines also provide detail on ...

Regnan appoint Amanda Wilson managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, executive general manager, culture and performance at Suncorp and over twelve years global consulting experience on human capital management, performance and reward, and mergers and acquisitions, including nine years ...

Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
In September, the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) will release its second survey assessing the environmental and social performance of public and private real estate investments. GRESB will be used by institutional investors to engage ...

Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... of ESG risks and opportunities is important to Australian institutional investors because Australia is vulnerable should global environmental movements result in decreased consumption of coal, Hodgson said. "You'd be worried about anything that would ...

Sustainability a key theme for investor awareness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... 10 years." Hodgson warned that Australia was particularly vulnerable to changes in environmental considerations, such as global withdrawal from using coal. "Australia has a tonne of minerals and resources, and that sector for the economy has been booming," ...

ANZ files report for United Nations Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
ANZ Bank has filed its first annual report to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) since becoming a signatory in 2010. The UNGC is a voluntary business initiative in which signatories commit to aligning their operations and strategies with 10 human ...