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CDP: ASX200 companies set short term goals for C02 reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... Zealand. "The targets set by most ASX companies are short term and do not yet adequately respond to the scale or long term nature of the climate change challenge that we face. Only four companies reported absolute emission reduction targets with a target ...

CDP calls for corporate stewardship to manage water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... achievable targets first - water efficiency in direct operations," CDP said in the report. "Due to water's temporal and spatial nature, water in one basin is not the same as water in another basin so applying a blanket strategy that focuses on reducing ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... notes that almost US$35 billion of bonds have yields of 5% or higher. Climate-themed bonds also tend to be long-term in nature - almost US$87 billion is available in tenors longer than 10 years, and US%54 billion have tenors in the range of five to 10 ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... advisory groups have all come out publicly and said they will be voting against the candidacy. It exposes the unrepresentative nature of that process that three private organisations can advise large institutions to direct proxy votes without accountability ...

New co-op body to stress economic, social value of model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... to bring in the voice of the member-owned business sector." Mutuals and co-ops operate to economic and social goals by nature, but because the social goals are intrinsic to the foundation of a member-owned organization, companies often don't articulate ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... models are used and how they impact upon a stock of capitals and some of those capitals are clearly natural capitals in nature. We are now building reporting methodologies that pick up those effects more effectively." Developing standards that can be ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Initiative. The standard is supervised by a board made up of the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), the Nature Resources Defense Council, the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk, the Investor Group ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Norton Rose Fulbright The changes proposed in Starting Emissions Trading on 1 July 2014: Policy Summary are mechanistic in nature with no untoward surprises said Elisa de Wit, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. "The key change, which is more at a policy ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... difficult to use responsible investment strategies with a quantitative approach to the ASX index because of the concentrated nature of the market. He noted, for example, that applying an ESG screen and overlay to the MSCI World index still leaves a wide ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... overweighted and higher carbon-intensive stocks are underweighted. "While forward-looking analysis is speculative by its nature, an analysis of the historical data shows that the financial risks involved in fossil-fuel divestment are minimal, and can ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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