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Australian property continues to lead GRESB performers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... progress in property companies' and funds' focus on sustainability issues. The survey noted on a like-for-like basis, greenhouse gas emissions of 171 property companies and funds decreased by 6%, a reduction of 432,000 metric tons of CO2, which is equivalent ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... loss approaches to biodiversity impact. While the experience of calculating, mitigating, offsetting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions is a useful model for companies looking to integrate ecosystem service accounting to their investment planning ...

ClimateWorks Australia name Hill, Ridout to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... invaluable as ClimateWorks continues to work with business, government and investors to help Australia reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and transition to a low-Âcarbon economy." Hill is an adjunct professor in sustainability at the US Studies Centre ...

GRI opens comment on anti-corruption, GHG guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is asking for public comment on its G4 draft guidance for anti-corruption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting. GRI is currently developing the next generation of its sustainability reporting guidelines, also ...

La Trobe sustainability report discloses ESG action, targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... The university disclosed accomplishments against a range of performance standards, including reducing facility greenhouse gas emissions to 0.13 tonnes CO2-e/GFA, against a target of 0.17 CO2-e/GFA, reducing paper use and increasing female academic staff ...

Global Reporting Initiative G4 draft out for public comment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... of Ernst & Young, Michael Cass of Shell and Peter Colley of the CMFEU Mining and Energy are participating in the greenhouse gas emissions working group, Paul Davies of Banarra is participating on the disclosure of management approach working group, Simon ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... offset the carbon emissions. The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGERS) Act, is the basis for reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the carbon pricing regime. Because of the fixed price of the initial three years of the regime, there ...

British government to mandate LSE greenhouse gas disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange's main market will have to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions from 2013, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced. The British government will introduce legislation bringing in the new ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... the CFI must have rigorous monitoring processes to assure that the claims of a tonne of carbon sequestration or greenhouse gas emission abatement measures up. "We're starting some early stage projects," said Burns of Sigma Global. "The companies want ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... air emissions from fracking operations. "Methane is more than twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and has much greater short-term warming potential," said Stephanie Pfeifer, IIGCC executive director in a statement. "Concerned ...