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Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... actual water bills to track performance." In terms of energy use, Charter Hall reported an increase in scope 1 carbon emissions, but a decrease in scope 2 indirect emissions from 2011 to 2012, but overall energy consumption fell slightly from 2011 to ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... and product information A healthy, safe and fair workplace Minimising environmental externalities, particularly carbon emissions, and Responsible service of gaming It's a good list, with the most problematic issues listed first and last. The phrase 'service ...

Local Government Super leader on managing climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... while pension funds have joined with initiatives such as CDP to lobby corporations for greater transparency about carbon emissions, the funds themselves have failed to disclose their portfolios' carbon liabilities or institute strategies to hedge against ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Companies that set absolute carbon emissions reductions targets are achieving reductions double the rate of those without targets, with 10% higher profitability, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon Action 2012 request. CDP Carbon ...

MSCI: Asia Pacific, EU green building market show potential

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... in the EU and Liberty in North America A majority of companies in Asia Pacific and Europe are tracking their carbon emissions or energy consumption - 58% in Asia Pacific, and 75% in Europe, while only 20% of North American companies are doing this, MSCI ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Future legislation commenced from July of this year with a three-year fixed price on carbon of AU$23/tonne of carbon emissions, transitioning to a market-based pricing mechanism from 2015. Fabian attributed the 12% drop in identifying carbon as a risk ...

Capturing the upside potential of Australia's carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... remains committed to unwinding the legislation establishing the three-year fixed price period of $23-per-tonne of carbon emissions and the transition to a flexible market for carbon permits after 2015. The government has just issued a discussion paper ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... businesses should consider across the fixed price period, where carbon is priced at a rate of AU$23/tonne of carbon emissions, as well as the flexible trading period that commences in 2015. These options could benefit businesses cash flow as well as ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... uncertainty around viability and performance of energy technologies and how the future pricing of externalities like carbon emissions might impact on those. Physical impacts include things such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels and increased ...

Wesfarmers publishes 2012 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... metering to improve data quality." Richard Goyder, Wesfarmers managing director, identified human capital and carbon emissions as material issues to the business' operation in a statement opening the report. In terms of carbon emissions and the introduction ...