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Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... piece on the Climate Bonds Initiative website. The fund will be allocated to transport and infrastructure, energy and biodiversity. This interest in climate bonds should result in great interest in a bond issued by the Australian government to cover ...

ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... to optimise water consumption on a site-by-site basis, and its comprehensive approach to developing "a practical biodiversity measure that will facilitate a baseline of biodiversity and track the environmental performance of its sites." The DJSI World ...

UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... fracking and deepwater drilling, local communities/indigenous population, board-related issues such as diversity, biodiversity and ecosystem services, labour standards of direct employees, public contributions and lobbying activities, waste and pollution ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Finance Corporation now expects project developers, and banks who finance them, to apply no net loss approaches to biodiversity impact. While the experience of calculating, mitigating, offsetting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions is a useful model ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... energy and utilities team and a solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques. She is a member of the Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Advisory Board and a director of the Carbon Market Institute, and a member of the board of trustees at the Sustainable ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... each government, we are using MSCI ESG Sovereign Ratings. On the environmental side, they're looking at things like biodiversity, land use, climate change and vulnerability to climate change, air pollution, energy security, water security, waste management ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... are taking steps to fully integrate waste management, reƂsource efficiency and water issues, yet issues such as biodiversity and climate change are not equally considered." Advancing corporate sustainability will get an airing at this month's UN Conference ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... April/May 2012. The four new topics are greenhouse gas emissions, occupational health and safety, corruption, and biodiversity. Other topics are under discussion and will be announced later this year. Q: You mentioned that there are multiple paths within ...

Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... a carbon abatement (which is credited under the CFI), as well as benefits which flow to Indigenous peoples and/or biodiversity in the project area. It is proposed that these 'co- benefits ' will be shown as additional information in the CFI Registrar. ...

NAB endorses natural capital declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... economic valuing of ecosystem services and the natural environment - that is, recognising impact and dependency on biodiversity and ecosystem services and accounting for them within traditional business frameworks and the way we do business. This is ...