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IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... development of the mandate of the Climate Change Authority (CCA), which is an independent body that will provide independent advice on the carbon pricing mechanism. Former Reserve Bank Governor and former Treasury Secretary Bernie Fraser has been named ...

Miscommunication hampers institutional vote engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... influence differs depending on the role you play, the report showed. The report found that 49% of ASX200 directors believe the advice provided by proxy advisory firms is influential and 42% of directors believing the advice is somewhat influential. In ...

Institutional investors begin analysis of carbon tax impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... what the carbon price might mean for them and also confirm in some cases the work they have been doing in terms of the advice they've been getting." The initial reaction from the investment management community is that the carbon tax will not have a ...

ASIC urges additional executive remuneration disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... conducted this review to measure and identify areas where companies could improve their disclosure to shareholders. ASIC's advice comes just a week after Parliament passed so-called "two-strikes" legislation giving shareholders in Australian publicly ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... research on carbon. We also provide clients with assessment of the carbon intensity of client portfolios and provide them with advice on how to better manage their carbon footprint. "We also design and implement action plans for clients to step through ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... as the 'price' of abatementachieved by particular policies." The government asked the Productivity Commission to provide advice on the effective carbon prices that result from countries' various policy and regulatory moves. The data is to be used to ...

Australia well placed to implement ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... liquidity and stability... The scheme should be administered by an independent authority, taking important decisions on advice from independent expert [scientific and technical] bodies." A trading framework can be developed off the back of knowledge ...

CAMAC releases review of executive remuneration governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Committee (CAMAC). CAMAC released its report on executive remuneration this week, a response to a government request for advice on the need to reduce the complexity of executive remuneration reports and revising the remuneration-setting framework to ...

Woodside shareholders reject carbon disclosure resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... the stock recommended a vote against the resolution. AustralianSuper determines its votes by reviewing ACSI governance advice, inquiring how the fund's investment managers will vote and considering the fund's internal voting policy, she explained. The ...

Nominations open for GRI's Stakeholder Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Guidelines via a recommendation of concur or non-concur, advises the GRI Secretariat on stakeholder issues and volunteers advice. Nominations for the Stakeholder Council close 12 June 2011.