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Institutional investors begin analysis of carbon tax impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the proposed scheme will start from 1 July 2012. For the first three years, it will run as a tax on carbon of AU$23/tonne which expected to rise by 2.5% per year in real terms until 2015. It has a lower bound for inclusions ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... outlined by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the scheme will start from 1 July 2012. For the first three years, it will run as a tax on carbon of AU$23/tonne which expected to rise by 2.5% per year in real terms until 2015. It has a lower bound for inclusions ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... ESG development information session for our clients, providing an overview of some of the recent ESG issues like the carbon tax, the new ASX diversity principles, the new executive remuneration rules, but also talking about what we're doing internally. ...

PUMA's environmental P&L reporting: a model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... and working conditions, while stage 3 will value the social and economic benefits of PUMA's operations through job creation, tax contributions, philanthropic initiatives and other "value-adding elements," the company explained. Local experts praised ...

Retailers could save $1bn pa with investment in energy efficiency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... concluded that making the energy efficiency changes in the ClimateWorks study would add 3-14% to earnings before interest and tax (EBIT), equivalent to AU$2bn revenue growth for major retailers. However, there are barriers to implementation across the ...

Deloitte, GRI to develop new program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
A new program between the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Deloitte will see the GRI's G3 and G3.1 guidelines given a new Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) taxonomy, meaning sustainability data can be communicated more easily to investors ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
An analysis of nine of Australia's major trading partners by the Productivity Commission concludes that establishing a carbon pricing mechanism is a more efficient means of reducing consumption than other schemes that raise the explicit and implicit ...