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Government allocates funds to GRI Focal Point Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian government will allocate AU$400,000 over the next two years to the Global Reporting Initiative Focal Point Australia, said David Bradbury, parliamentary secretary to the treasurer. The Focal Point is the product of a 2008 agreement between ...

Climate change issues integrated into investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... notes variation in progress towards how climate change risk/opportunity is integrated into investment decisions, with Australia and New Zealand and European investors ahead of their US counterparts. The Global Investor Survey on Climate Change Annual ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... horizon such as two or three years is one possible solution to this. "This is the challenge that superannuation funds in Australia are facing," Fryer said. "They're taking a clear commitment to ESG factors and to generating long term return. The average ...

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 ...

Low Carbon Australia makes two board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia has appointed Tanya Cox and Linda Nicholls to the board of directors. Cox is the chief operating officer and company secretary of DEXUS Property Group. Nicholls is a corporate adviser and director. Nicholls is chair of Yarra Trams ...

Swan: carbon price vital for first-rate, first-world economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... carbon emissions is the only way to drive investment in cleaner energy innovation, and failing to do so would condemn Australia to becoming "an old-world, high-polluting technological backwater," Treasurer Wayne Swan said in a speech Tuesday. "I start ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... Fund's invests in largely the ASX200 using a process not of market capitalization, which is the normal market index in Australia, but one called fundamental indexing. It's a slightly different approach and it tries to better capture the value of a company ...

New water accounting standard to measure quantity, rights and obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... transparency that we're looking for in this area," said Mark Shying, senior policy adviser in external reporting at CPA Australia. "The beauty of the water accounting standards is that they're being developed over a framework that has many similarities ...

Majority of ASX100 report on ESG issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... according to the report. Macquarie Bank also cited Amcor Ltd, Commonwealth Property Office, Foster's Group Ltd, Insurance Australia Group Ltd, Macarthur Coal Ltd, Orica Ltd, Qantas Airways Ltd, Stockland, and Transurban Group NPV for having strong ESG ...

Virgin Australia certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Virgin Australia has been given carbon neutral certification by Low Carbon Australia. The publicly listed airline formerly known as Virgin Blue received government approval through the National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS). The carbon neutral initiative ...