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YES BANK signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... weather extremes, water availability, ecosystem degradation - can affect the loans, investments and other products on a banks' balance sheet. The NCD aims to provide insight to uncover these and solutions how to address these issues in credit risk management ...

City of Melbourne, NAB, Eureka Funds Management sign EUA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Eureka Funds Management and National Australia Bank (NAB) have financed a AU$7 million environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) that will retrofit a Melbourne office tower to reduce carbon emissions by more than 600 tonnes a year. Signing of the AU$7 million ...

Beyond Zero Emissions proposes model for retrofitting houses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... "Yes, you could, but the challenge is having the existing lenders comfortable with that. We were dealing with institutional banks and not the retail side of things, and so the advice at the time was to limit this to commercial only where the banks were ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Association (EPIA), Wolfeaware, and the Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII). "Certification will be most useful for utilities and banks looking to issue corporate bonds where the proceeds are then allocated to solar assets," Kidney said in a statement ...

GRESB signs up new partner, members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... investors in the real estate sector, has become a partner. IVBN is made up of large pension funds, insurance companies, banks and both listed and non-listed real estate funds and companies, and members invest across real estate sectors. GRESB will organize ...

Westpac, CBA, Benevolent Society launch social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... Australia. Blackburn-Wright acknowledged that SBBs are not available to all social service providers because of the features that banks and investors seek when looking to buy into an investment vehicle. "The interesting thing to me when talking to social ...

Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... movement of Australians ready to leave fossil fuel investments behind, including many who have pledged to move their savings to banks that don't invest in fossil fuels. The Future Fund should join that movement."

Natural Capital Declaration starts implementation phase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... natural capital considerations into financial accounting, disclosure and reporting. NCD said four working groups, led by banks from four continents, will address critical challenges to incorporating natural capital calculations in the finance industry. ...

Reconciliation Australia receives $14.4m in budget funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... programs for wider community and social structures. See Also: NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... sectors of the economy where sustainability has been incorporated and has been easier to incorporate," Thomas said. "The banks have done a lot of work on their own sustainability footprint and in social responsibility profiles. We'd like to see them ...