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CSIRO: engagement increases wind farm development approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... wind farm development were "as a means to take action against human-induced climate change, [to] reduce greenhouse gas emissions" and job creation. As part of the study, CSIRO found that wind company representatives were vulnerable to community acceptance ...

CSL reports new anti-corruption policy, lower emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... the company said. CSL's water consumption increased by 2.2% and its estimated total scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions for manufacturing facilities was 165 kilotonnes Co2-e for 2010-2011, an increase of 0.4%. Compared to the company's baseline ...

Pacific Hydro reduces carbon footprint 37%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... farms and the impacts of hydro projects. Pacific Hydro notched up 4,744 tonnes of scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions in the 2011 financial year across construction, ongoing operations and office-based activities of majority-owned assets. "The ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... the percentage of women in leadership and decreases in its lost time injury frequency rate (LITFR) and greenhouse gas emissions, against a backdrop of a net profit of AU$6.99bn, an increase of 10% over 2010's result. The financial services and banking ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... development sector," said Nicholas Collishaw, Mirvac managing director. "One key initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is our commitment to achieve an average 4 Star NABERS Energy rating on applicable office buildings managed by our investment ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... 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. The company opposed the motion and it only received around ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
AWE Limited, an oil and gas exploration and production company, reported a 3% decline in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to approximately 203,000 CO2-e, with production of 6.12m barrel of oil equivalent (BOE), basically the same as the 6.09m BOE production ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the Future Melbourne (Eco-City) Committee, Councillor Cathy Oke. "More than 50% of the municipality's greenhouse gas emissions are generated by the commercial sector and we have an ambitious plan to catalyse the retrofit 1200 city buildings - two thirds ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has developed two new standards that will measure greenhouse gas emissions across companies' value chains and across product life cycles. The Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) harmonizes global methodology to measure corporate ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... supply chain. The first stage of PUMA's EP&L statement, issued earlier this year, addressed the company's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and water consumption, both within the company's operations, and critically, down the supply chain. There are two ...