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Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... redress to clarify the process under which shareholders can put resolutions to the AGM. "The best option would be to get legislation in place to give the clearest rules and the most robust rules from the legal point of view," Thomas said. "Failing that ...

Debate over setting surrender charges for carbon units

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... certainty to allow liable companies to manage their future liabilities. Under the government's Clean Energy Future legislation, from July 2015 to June 2018, the price of offsetting a tonne of carbon emissions will be priced within a relative band - a ...

Four appointed to Energy Security Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... government has made four appointments to the Energy Security Council, a body established as part of the Clean Energy Future legislation to advise on measures to address energy security risks. Ross Bunyon, Nancy Fox, Stephen Parbery and Michael Perry ...

KPMG: companies should review anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... understand what is or isn't a bribe or a facilitation payment. People perceive it as a cash thing - it's not only cash. UK legislation talks about "advantage" not cash. It could include paying for entertainment, travel and things like that could fall ...

Highlights of a year in The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... the Clean Energy Future package: Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities Draft carbon tax legislation "faithful", but tricky in details Assistance will "significantly reduce" effects of carbon tax on industry With companies ...

NAB funds Melbourne building environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... space tenancies. "The other two are mainly office buildings, and it's good to have 123 Queen Street," he said. "The legislation applies to all 'predominately non-residential', buildings, which wider than what we sought under the modelling." EUAs are ...

Durban agreements to impact Australia's ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... this week. The future price of CERs on the international market has direct impact on the Australian scheme under the legislation. "The government has said that for the first three years of trading, there will be a price floor and a price ceiling and ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... to offset their liabilities or generate extra revenue by participating in the CFI, which was passed in August. The legislation serves to implement certain national obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...

David Bradbury announces inquiry on future of the AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... also touched on the result of the first annual general meeting (AGM) season in which the government's "two-strikes" legislation has been operating. Under the Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Director and Executive Remuneration) Bill ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Farming Initiative (CFI) will have to register for an Australian Financial Services (AFS) license as part of draft legislation from the federal government. The federal government has released amendments to the Corporations Act that classify tradeable ...