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Margaret River Winery installs SunPower solar system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Watershed Premium Wines, a Margaret-River based winery, has installed a 149-kilowatt solar power system that the winery says will offset electricity use by 30%. Photo Courtesy of Watershed Winery Watershed had a SunPower solar power system installed ...

ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has recommended that listed companies disclose how economic, environmental and social sustainability risks are being identified and managed. This week the ASX Group's Corporate Governance Council published a ...

Potential impact investment market estimated at $32 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The potential impact investment market is estimated at AU$32 billion over the next decade, but current capital commitments and active investors are small, relative to what is needed to achieve that figure, according to a recent report. David Rickards ...

Integrated Reporting framework launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The newly released International Integrated Reporting Framework could serve to improve integrated thinking and reporting about value creation over time, but concerns remain in Australia about specific legal questions over forward-looking statements. ...

Australian mining companies report on human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
Respecting human rights is both a responsibility and a minimum requirement for companies, but there is also a strong business case for managing human rights as a way of reducing risk. A new report by the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) and the Global ...

MSCI launches MSCI ESG DataMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
MSCI has launched MSCI ESG DataMetrics, a comprehensive set of metrics to facilitate quantitative analysis of environmental, social and environmental data. MSCI ESG DataMetrics can be used in the development of proprietary ESG models and reporting on ...

ACSI hire Gordon Hagart as new chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) have hired Gordon Hagart as its new chief executive. Hagart comes to ACSI from the AU$100 billion Future Fund, where he is currently head of environmental, social and governance risk management. ...

UN Global Compact designs equities index that outperforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The UN Global Compact has launched an equities index based on companies that have committed to the Global Compact's principles, and found that the index has outperformed general global stock indices. The Global Compact 100 (GC 100) is released in partnership ...

Companies lag on implementing UN Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Companies that have signed the United Nations Global Compact are making commitments in keeping with the sustainability initiative's principles, but implementation, measurement, and communication all lag behind, the initiative reports. Companies are ...

Beyond Zero Emissions proposes model for retrofitting houses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Australian residential and commercial property could reach zero carbon emissions standards in 10 years with sufficient retrofitting to reduce energy consumption, according to Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE), a not-for-profit research and education organisation. ...