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Sustainable Development Goals present "enormous opportunity" for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... products, which account for 58% of its total revenue. Mirvac is involved through the development and management of green buildings, which account for 52% of its revenue. "We discovered that Australian constituents generated 4.9% of their revenue linked ...

MSCI benchmarks Australian companies against SDG revenue generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... products, which account for 58% of its total revenue. Mirvac is involved through the development and management of green buildings, which account for 52% of its revenue. "CSL generates their involvements thru the major disease treatment sustainable impact ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... AU$8 billion lent by the end of the financial year. "What we've certainly found is that there's a real growth in green buildings and business lending, being a significant part of the cleantech and environmental services team over the past 12 months," ...

MSCI assesses future carbon exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... it comes to use of proceeds - alternative energy, energy efficiency, pollution control, sustainable water, and green buildings, Lee said. MSCI is currently evaluating the available universe of bonds against its definitions, she said. Bonds must also ...

Climate Bonds Initiative proposes green property standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... effectively and at scale will require more confidence in the tools, standards and models available to measure green buildings and their financial performance. The Climate Bonds Standard for Green Buildings through its standardized measurement, reporting ...

IFC, Shenzhen Emissions Trading Exchange sign agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... world's largest fleets of electric vehicles and is also China's leading city in the implementation of star-rated green buildings, IFC said. The memorandum of understanding between IFC and the Shenzhen Emissions Trading Exchange is the first time IFC ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... ESG Research. "We have seen investors who have gone down the road of taking a theme like alternative energy or green buildings, and built a passive index off of that," Salvatico said. "MSCI has standard thematic solutions, such as the Global Environment ...

ANREV real estate investors outperform global GRESB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... New Zealand leads the way in reporting energy reduction targets, ANREV said. "Fifty percent of ANREV members use green buildings certifications on their portfolios, compared to 53% in APAC and only 37% at the Global sample level," the report said. "In ...

Melbourne wins energy efficient built environment award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... retrofitting existing buildings and setting minimum standards for new buildings, leading to the highest density of new green buildings in Australia. "We know that sustainability and liveability are inexorably linked," Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said in ...

Westpac focuses on demographics, environment in strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... level of support for those sectors that we think will represent the bulk of our activities - renewable energy, green buildings and to a lesser extent waste management as well," she said. "A lot of that funding will go to supporting direct activities ...