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Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... company that focused on collecting seeds of native plants that are then propagated and used to rehabilitate land damaged in mining. Using plants that are better suited to the region based on the communities' knowledge has yielded faster rehabilitatio ...

Investors to call on ERSB to investigate carbon asset risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... themselves holding "stranded assets with poor returns" as technology and government policy reduce returns in "coal, oil, gas mining and other high carbon assets."

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... companies in the top 10 have reported on ESG factors for a long time. The characteristics of certain industries, such as mining, put certain companies in a position where reporting and managing ESG matters were more front-of-mind activities. "They're ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing industries ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... 'so-what'. If you talk about Indigenous community engagement and how it impacts on delays or inability to get permits for mining sites, that's a so-what. Privacy is another issue that is a human right, but what's the so-what?... Human rights is like ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... equities. Of that 20%, 10% of that is in high growth or value stocks and within that, 2% are in financial services, 3% in mining, and the rest is in listed property. That is valuable disclosure, and particularly if you're developing your own portfolio ...

Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... energy-intensive manufacturing and processing sectors." Bree projects that the fastest growing consumer of primary energy will be the mining sector, with average growth of 5.2% a year expected over the projection period. During the same time period ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Differences in carbon pricing policies in various countries and regions will cause variations in production costs for the mining industry, raising the possibility that production in one area will become less competitive than in others, the International ...

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
... structures through the full publication and verification of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas, and mining. Under the EITI pilot, Australia will assess the transparency of its financial reporting arrangements for the resources sector ...