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Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... burned," she noted. "But those reserves are built into stock prices, especially in Australia, given the concentration of mining and extraction companies. To address the long term impacts of climate change, there will need to be a short-term financial ...

AMP Capital notes increased engagement, board diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... with 1 or none," Halliday said. "If you look at the whole market, that trend isn't replicated because a lot of the small mining companies did have some outstanding performance but no women on board. Their outstanding performance may be based on corporate ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... in the circle. Chapman and Marshall both spoke to initiatives addressing employee health - Chapman of Xtrata, which has mining operations in South Africa, pointed to an HIV/AIDS health initiative. Chapman said that when Xtrata began operating in South ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... than 10% of their revenue from areas including "armaments, gambling, nuclear/uranium, old growth logging, tobacco, poor mining practices, questionable workplace practices, and questionable ESG practices," the report said. "The international collaboration ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... emission is strong. The report noted that industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing industries ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing industries ...

Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... varied. What we encourage them to do is to really understand what the risks are and all of the teams have expertise in mining and oil and gas, so can apply that to understand the risks and the opportunities as well."

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... components. The framework allows you to communicate water use in a consistent way to stakeholders." To reflect the fact that mining and minerals extraction companies have varying capacities to integrate additional reporting standards, the MCA water accounting ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... we're going to have to grow the capacity. Some of that is protection of food growing areas, which have competition from mining and urbanisation as well." Lauber Patterson points to other areas of the Clean Energy Future legislative package as an area ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... reporting collective action. The report cited an example of BHP Billiton, which reported that the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is testing a framework for water reporting and accounting, which is being developed by the Minerals Council ...