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CDP finds 68% of global corporates embed climate change strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Global 500 from January 2005 to May 2011." The rising importance of climate change to boardroom level is attributed to rising oil prices, energy supply risks and growing recognition of the commercial returns on investments in emissions reduction activities. ...

Skilled labour shortage potentially increases corporate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Regnan Governance Research. Skills shortage is a focus of Regnan's research and company engagement over sectors including oil and gas, engineering and construction, information and communication technology and healthcare and allied health sectors. "[C]ompanies ...

Sustainability a key theme for investor awareness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Group. "Sustainability is not a problem for the next three years, but sustainability is about peak stuff, whether that's peak oil or rare earths or food or water or whatever," Hodgson said in a Towers Watson piece. "On major sovereign default, I don't ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... both participate in the European Union's cap-and-trade ETS that started in 2005 and covers power stations, combustion plants, oil refineries and iron and steel works and will be extended to the aviation sector in 2021 and petrochemicals, ammonia and ...

GRI releases airport operator sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... and electric utilities. The airport operators sector supplement is the sixth sector to be covered. See Also: GRI developing oil and gas sector reporting guidance Global Reporting Initiative launch process for new standards

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... of Woodside, which we're still waiting on the outcome, have said they'd do what we asked, after the event. In the case of Oil Search, that's exactly what they did. We put up the resolution and they came to us and said we've been thinking about this ...

Majority of ASX100 report on ESG issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... BHP Billiton Ltd, Boral Ltd, CFS Retail Property Trust, CSL Ltd, Dexus Property Group, Goodman Fielder, Origin Energy Ltd, Oil Search Ltd, OneSteel Ltd, Wesfarmers Ltd, and Woolworths Ltd.

GRI developing oil and gas sector reporting guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative is developing sustainability reporting guidelines for the oil and gas sector, to be used by organizations for measuring and reporting on the economic, environmental, social, and governance dimensions of their activities ...

Woodside shareholders reject carbon disclosure resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... would have amended the corporate constitution to require disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for oil and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and the extent to which these factors might impair assets. ...

Climate change a portfolio risk: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
... 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, including ...