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Climate Institute calls for long-term national carbon budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Australia's carbon laws, from 2015, there will be an absolute limit on emissions from the country's most emissions-intensive industries. The government will set those limits after receiving recommendations from the CCA. One approach is a long-term budget ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... sectors. The likelihood of more than two degrees of global warming in coming decades means that investors in Australian industries must consider how those companies will be affected by more intense cyclones, higher average temperatures, less water availability ...

GNDI: encourage board diversity, but not by quotas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... terms of what they're accepting," Price said. "We've had dialogue from senior directors, permeating throughout various industries. There are discussions around skills analysis at board level and looking at whole of board, not just from the gender perspective ...

Jessica Robinson named ASrIA general manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... years in professional services and business consulting, with specialism in the financial services and sustainability industries, ASrIA said. According to Robinson's LinkedIn profile, she has previously worked as a director at Enecore Carbon and a client ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... US$8tr by 2030 if the international community's mitigation response to carbon emission is strong. The report noted that industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Strategic Asset Allocation. If the international community's mitigation response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining ...

Greencape Capital hires Jonathan Koh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Established in 2006, the fund manager uses "uses targeted research methods to identify sustainable returns in businesses and industries with attractive and measurable operating trends," the fund said. Koh comes to Greencape Capital from BlackRock, where ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... communities. It's one of those areas where a large corporate is asked to be all things to all people. Woolworths touches industries and communities more than most, so its stakeholders have high expectations. Just the strategic priorities for the supermarkets ...

Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... economy," she said. "This means that if there are risks to unconventional gas that do negatively impact upon other industries, we are exposed to those impacts as well. In the same way, if coal seam gas and shale fail to deliver on their contractual obligations ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon Action 2012 request. CDP Carbon Action is a letter sent to 256 companies in high-emitting industries, requesting emissions reductions with publicly disclosed targets and ROI-positive investments in projects, and a letter ...