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Elders reports increased lost time injury frequency rate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... AU$56,000 for the McGrath Foundation towards the costs of supporting rural and regional breast care nurses. This money has helped fund the first full-time McGrath Elders Breast Care Nurse. The nurse is based at the Royal Flying Doctor Service base in ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
Institutional investors will demand explanation for discrepancies between companies' nominated environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles and any divergences in practice in the way that they currently question discrepancies in financial matters ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... cost approximately AU$6m, and $2.1m of this was funded through the Australian Federal Government AusIndustry Green Building Fund. The upgrade would not have gone ahead without the award from the Green Building Fund, Churchill said. "This project wouldn't ...

Only 4% of CDP respondents see high risks with carbon pricing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... "Everyone was cautious to the level of detail they chose to disclose," she said. Westpac and Commonwealth Property Office Fund topped the CDP's report for their carbon disclosure score and performance band - both received a score of 96 for disclosure ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
The mining of coal seam gas has never been more prominent in Australia, and institutional investors are weighing the environmental, social and political risks of being invested in companies with exposures to coal seam gas operations. While there are ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian government has agreed to undertake a pilot of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), with Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson announcing that the government will provide AU$12.7m to support ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... people would withdraw the particular support because of what a company was undertaking," said Woods of AMP Capital. "Our fund is a multimanager fund. AMP Capital provides the review of the holdings from an ESG perspective, and the fund has an ethical ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... pointed to the anticipated resolutions to be proposed by the the Climate Advocacy Shareholder Group, which was founded by fund manager Australian Ethical Investment. Earlier this year, the Climate Advocacy Shareholder Group tabled a resolution at Woodside ...

Dean Paatsch launches new governance advisory firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Governance experts Dean Paatsch, Martin Lawrence and Simon Connal have launched a new governance advisory business, Ownership Matters (OM). The independent, Australian focused governance firm has a suite of services aimed at financial institutions - ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... The working group, announced last week, will be is chaired by Andrew Major, general manager - investments of HESTA Super Fund. It will establish talking points for engagement not only with the review panel that will advise on the design of the AU$10bn ...