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CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... companies' workforce and customers. Cities also citied changes to the natural environment and resources that impact on production, particularly in the food industries, CDP also reported. "Our report finds that cities are responding across the board to ...

AMP Capital assesses progress, risks in Bangladesh factories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... written on the subject of supply chain risks and opportunities for those Australian retailers that outsource apparel production to suppliers based in countries including China, Cambodia and Bangladesh. These risks for both the companies and their investors ...

UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... that when markets are strong, income are up and costs aren't going up.We had rising income, but we also had reduced production cost." UCA Funds Management is an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, and provides investment ...

PRI coalition calls for improved palm oil practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Responsible Investment (PRI) has called on palm oil producers to improve practices with the aim of "decoupling palm oil production from deforestation." The PRI's Sustainable Palm Oil Investor Working Group (IWG) calls on all palm oil producers to commit ...

Don Henry named fellow at University of Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... said. "Climate change is the great challenge of our generation and we are now in a major period of change for energy production and consumption around the world," Henry said in a statement. "The good news is that in the last decade renewable energy production ...

PRI finds limited disclosure of fracking activity, impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... firms do not provide a clear picture of their fracking activities, "even within markets where there is a high level of production and servicing activity," PRI said. PRI commissioned AccountAbility to analyse the disclosure practices of 56 global listed ...

CEFC provides $20m loan facility to Carnegie Wave Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... CEFC said. The CEFC finance will be used to develop the CETO 6 system, "which the company expects to be the commercial production version of their wave technology, capable of commercialisation and deployment globally in targeted markets," CEFC said. ...

IGCC joins world peers in voicing fugitive methane concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... carbon, and HFCs." Fabian noted that the Australian context differs from other markets when it comes to natural gas production. "I think the Australian story is different to the US story," he said. "The situation here is that as the industry grows and ...

Paladin Energy, Swala Energy join EITI Supporting Companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... improve accountability, companies are ensuring that the EITI process is making a difference." Paladin Energy is a uranium production company with projects currently in Australia and two operating mines in Africa. Australia's EITI pilot started in July ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... funded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, investigates how water accounting, specifically the production of General Purpose Water Accounting Reports (GPWAR) can work in practice for accountants in firms and corporations," Tingey-Holyoak ...