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Zoos Victoria certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Among those measures include a solar PV system to provide power for energy efficient lighting in Melbourne Zoo's front retail shop and improvements to Melbourne Zoo's Butterfly House have significantly reduced the amount of gas needed to keep its temperature ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... natural gas and producing low-carbon thermal energy, and providing heating and cooling for 3,000 residences and 65,000sqm of retail and commercial space in 14 buildings at Central Park. "In terms of this opportunity, it varied from our other, Melbourne ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Ed Note: The Sustainability Report welcomes this comment from Stephen Hale, a director at Core and former founding MD of OgilvyEarth. Core is an independent Sydney-based marketing and strategy agency Stephen Hale The other day a well known marketing ...

GRESB hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... include Colonial First State Global Asset Management (GFSGAM)'s Commonwealth Property Office Fund, the GPT Group, considered retail for the purposes of the survey, Stockland for residential, Australian Prime Property Fund Industrial, managed by Lend ...

Colonial First State GAM to drive further ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... amounts of business coming from outside Australia now, in 2012 our EMEA business was in the top 10 of managers in the UK retail market, which is one of the reasons why I'm in London, to tackle that challenge." Oulton said that there is increasing interest ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... credit," McCrum said. "The main issue isn't liquidity - it's that the issuance in places like Sweden and Japan is more retail driven. You can get more Yen exposure in green bonds, for example, but the issue is that the bonds go straight to Japanese mums ...

Local Government Super sells upgraded property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... the maximum 6 stars NABERS rating if Greenpower is taken into account." SKM House is 10,000 square metres of office and retail space and parking for 74 cars. It was built in the late 1980's and is 100% tenanted, with Sinclair Knight Merz occupying the ...

ANZ discloses ESG metrics in 2012 shareholder review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... self-disclosed disability had been employed, with a 74% retention rate. The bank also hired 79 Indigenous trainees in their retail network. Twenty-three were recruited to full time-positions and 25 were recruited via the Indigenous trainee program. See ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... businesses objectives in its first sustainability report. Charter Hall manages 184 properties for wholesale, institutional and retail clients, with an AU$9.6bn predominately Australian property portfolio across the core office, industrial and retail ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... suggests that Woolworths is sending 96,000 tonnes to landfill, somewhat over-shadowing the food diversion highlight. The best retail team The last section of the report is a comprehensive account of how Woolworths is developing its people to be a world-class ...