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Video Panel: Ethical Investments: Design and Communication

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Ethical Investments: Design and Communication from The Sustainability Report on Vimeo. The Sustainability Report moderated this live panel debate in Sydney on the investment decision-making behind ethical financial products in the areas of superannuation ...

Integrated Reporting framework launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... Framework could serve to improve integrated thinking and reporting about value creation over time, but concerns remain in Australia about specific legal questions over forward-looking statements. The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) ...

More Australian companies report corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... financial services companies reporting on corporate responsibility - an increase from 33% in 2011 to 68% this year. Australia is now joint fourth in terms of quality of reports in the world's top 250 companies, KPMG said. "The debate over whether companies ...

Climate Friendly, Corporate Carbon Advisory in CFI project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Climate Friendly and Corporate Carbon Advisory have developed a biomass project for inclusion under the Carbon Farming Initiative, and are exploring new projects for inclusion under the proposed Direct Action Plan. Climate Friendly and Corporate Carbon ...

Expanded EUAs could generate $4.5bn investment in Victoria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... lenders. Currently, bankmecu, NAB, Eureka Funds Management and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (formerly Low Carbon Australia) are finance providers in Melbourne. "The business opportunity here is that if EUAs become available throughout Victoria ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... she said. "Our funds might be involved for 10-15 years, but from a valuating the asset, these are perpetual assets. In Australia, we have fire risk, and that is the thing we look at the most, but also rainfall and drought will affect us. From a fire ...

Colonial First State GAM publishes global stewardship code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... current disclosure requirements for the UK and other stewardship codes, and will be adopted across all markets, including Australia. The principles outline CFSGAM's approach to "managing conflicts of interest, and engaging with senior management of companies ...

CDP: ASX200 companies set short term goals for C02 reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... while most ASX200 companies focus on setting short-term targets for carbon emission reduction, according to the CDP Australia and New Zealand Climate Change Report 2013. "There's a short term focus on the carbon reduction target that companies are setting," ...

Net Balance urges co-benefits approach for carbon offsets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... to carbon offset projects as a way to revive investment in projects. In a new report, Benefiting from co benefits in Australia, Net Balance advocates that Australia should adopt or integrate with an international standard to "enable widespread acceptance ...

IGCC: insto investors would park capital if CEFC repealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will cause institutional investors to step back from deals in low-carbon investments in Australia, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) told a Senate inquiry into the repeal of the Clean Energy Future legislation. ...