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Business response to climate change "creative self-destruction"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... when it comes to the business response to climate change, according to a new book. Professor Chris Wright, University of Sydney Business School In Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations : Processes of Creative Self-Destruction, Professor Christopher ...

Origin Energy endorses We Mean Business commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... Investment Management, Shell, Ricoh, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Swiss Re, UCA Funds Management, Unilever, University of Sydney, Veolia, VicSuper and Westpac. The seven commitments of the We Mean Business coalition: Committed to adopt a science-based ...

CEFC to provide up to $30m financing to City of Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... by 2020, and has a target to source 25% of the municipality's electricity from renewables by 2018." See Also: Melbourne, Sydney join Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

Board skills matrix an assessment opportunity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... where there are gaps in skill and diversity. director of the Governance Services Program at the University of Technology, Sydney "The current model is unsustainable because you have an ever-diminishing population of directors," said Dr Ulysses Chioatto ...

Cities increasing uptake of renewable energy: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra are among a group of global cities to set renewable energy targets, but overall, Latin American and European cities are the least reliant on fossil fuels for electricity, according to a new study by CDP and AECOM. According ...

Victorian government expands EUA legislation statewide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... Australia parliament is considering its own version of state-wide legislation. See Also: Eureka Funds Management funds Sydney EUA CEFC commits $30 million to EUA financing fund Expanded EUAs could generate $4.5bn investment in Victoria

Newpin social benefit bond returns 8.9% in second year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... Australia's first offering and funds the Newpin program run by UnitingCare Burnside, which operates out of four centres in Sydney's west. The program is designed to prevent children entering foster care and improve the rate of children being safely returned ...

Governance Institute appoints Steven Burrell as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... wider community." Burrell was previously a journalist, columnist and editor at the Australian Financial Review and the Sydney Morning Herald and has won both a Walkley Award and Pan Asian Journalist of the Year Award. He has also been a policy adviser ...

KPMG Australia buys Banarra

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... climate change and sustainability services team. Banarra has clients in 10 countries. Recent clients include MMG Limited, Sydney Airport and Westpac. Banarra expanded from report-related sustainability assurance to full service human rights and social ...

ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... but the need for the data is common across MSCI clients, said Michael Salvatico, vice president at MSCI ESG Research in Sydney. "It's been interesting to work with the clients on the reporting side, because that's where we've seen the most interest in ...