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Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Unconventional oil and gas development techniques for extracting coal seam gas (CSG) and shale gas reserves in Australia presents environmental and political risks that responsible investors must take into account, according to panelists in a recent ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance opens third Good Money site

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Good Shepherd Microfinance has opened a retail site in Melbourne to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney at the Good Money launch ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
CPA Australia has published a guide designed to accountants' capacity to provide assurance on sustainability reports for small and medium-sized entities (SMEs). Amir Ghandar The report, A Guide for Assurance on SME Sustainability Reports, is a practitioners' ...

ClimateWorks Australia developing GHG reductions index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
ClimateWorks Australia is developing a national index of business' activity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The research is geared at enabling government, businesses and the community to see the impact of businesses' activities to reduce emissions ...

More women appointed to ASX200 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
ASX200 companies are continuing to appoint more women to boards, leading to more diversity in age as well as in gender, according to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). The AICD ASX 200 Snapshot Report 2012 found that women directors ...

Government bodies not effectively speaking on sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Government organisations are not effectively communicating sustainability-related issues to stakeholders, according to a survey of Australian-based sustainability management personnel, consultants and commentators. Stephen Hale According to the survey ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Companies that set absolute carbon emissions reductions targets are achieving reductions double the rate of those without targets, with 10% higher profitability, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon Action 2012 request. CDP Carbon ...

MSCI: Asia Pacific, EU green building market show potential

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Globally, the green building market has more growth potential in the Asia-Pacific and Europe than in North America, according to research from MSCI. In the latest MSCI ESG IVA Industry Report: Real Estate, MSCI benchmarks 70 of the largest real estate ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has designed and is implementing a water accounting framework to provide a means for companies to analyse their water use and management in a way that is tailored to the minerals industry. Developed in conjunction ...

IIRC publishes integrated reporting prototype

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has released the prototype of the International Integrated Reporting Framework (IR), outlining concepts and principles to IR. The prototype framework establishes guiding principles and content elements ...