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IGCC working group engages on green finance design, function

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... private, institutional investors to the debate surrounding climate change, Major said. "One of the things that goes to the core of what we're looking at is that public sector often comes up with ideas and then creates structures to implement the ideas ...

NAB endorses natural capital declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Declaration." Dirk Duijzer, Rabobank's director of cooperative and sustainable business said that sustainability is one of the bank's core values, and acknoledged that nature and ecoystem services are a basic element in the local nad global economy. ...

RIAA: responsible investment funds grew 8% in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Core responsible investment funds grew at faster rate than the broader mainstream market in 2011, according to Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). Core responsible investment, which RIAA defines as including managed responsible investment ...

Pacific Hydro reduces carbon footprint 37%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... ventures). We divested our 50% stake in the Luzon Hydro Corporation, Philippines, in line with our strategy to focus on our core markets of Australia and South America." Pacific Hydro produces renewable energy from a portfolio of wind farm and hydro ...

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Accountants, which has published a list of 20 sustainability issues for professionals seeking to integrate sustainability into core business strategies. In Business briefing series: 20 issues on building a sustainable business, co-authored with KPMG ...

Microfinance a source of financial and social return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... due diligence to insure that financial processes are sound and that fund managers are pursuing return while respecting the core mission of providing sources of capital lending, rather than fueling increased consumption in emerging markets. Microfinance ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... costly exercise for entities to undertake. For smaller entities, and certainly for entities where this isn't part of their core business, this degree of regulation will be something of an impediment. I think we will see the emergence of aggregators who ...

Disclosing sustainability risks, engaging stakeholders vital to corporate interests

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Accountants (ACCA ). Adams recently bylined a piece for ACCA on the need for companies embed environmental sustainability as a core strategy and cited water consumption as one area in which more could and should be done. Water consumption is an issue ...

MSCI launches ESG platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... Included are assessments of major ESG controversies and violations of global conventions such as the UN Global Compact and ILO Core Conventions. Institutional investors can monitor new controversies and violations using the ESG Alert functionality of ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... that are appropriate to the industry, and measuring progress and reporting results. "The principles-based approach at its core is intended as a contribution to the evolution of climate change-related public policy when policies are being designed and ...