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World Bank issues $300m Australian Kangaroo Green Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... appetite and more opportunities, we are going to continue to look for similar trades. We will concentrate on developing our core home market first of all, and then look at what we can do in other markets." UniSuper found the experience of collaborating ...

New Forests releases 2013 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... we'd like to see happen. We're working on the sustainability strategy with regular biz planning. It is integrated to the core and something that our executive team and board are looking at, along with me. We want a cohesive, driven, strategic sustainability ...

CEFC, CBA finance efficiency upgrades for food processors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Yates said. "Quantum Power will build and manage the onsite facilities, leaving businesses free to keep focused on their core operations." CEFC have partnered with Quantum Power on two previous projects - an anaerobic digester for an egg producer and ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... RAP as within the Wealth of Opportunity strategy is deliberately done to reflect that the RAP is embeded into the bank's core business, said Glen Brennan, head of Indigenous finance and development at National Australia Bank "One of our challenges is ...

Global Alliance for Banking on Values to meet in Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
Sustainability should be a "core tenant" of the global banking system, a message that members of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) will emphasise at its annual meeting in Melbourne next week. Damien Walsh, bankmecu managing director GABV ...

Looking for social, economic return by creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Melbourne. The term CSV was defined by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer in 2011, and means the embedding of social challenges into core business strategy to generate both business and social value, and conference attendees analysed the concepts and application ...

Westpac discloses environmental, social, financial metrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... three priority area - embracing social change, environmental solutions and better financial futures. "Underneath the three core ideas are the 10 objectives and those objective are owned by the business," said Siobhan Toohill, head of sustainability and ...

GRI makes appointments to Stakeholder Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... 2016. The Stakeholder Council advises the GRI board on strategic issues. There are up to 50 people representing the GRI's core constituencies - business, civil society, investment, labour and mediating institutions. Helena Barton, partner - Deloitte ...

ICMM members commit to adopt GRI G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... prepare their sustainability report to the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) G4 guidelines. The requirement to report to the core option of the G4 guidelines takes effect for the year ending 31 December 2015, and each member company will report and ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... LGS. "We have had a long relationship with State Street - they have managed a passive equities mandate for us which was the core of our equities strategy," Hartnett said. "It came about because asset consultant said you could do with more risk in your ...