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Low Carbon Australia to provide financing to foundries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... financing program will build off of previously established programs that finance energy efficiency upgrades in other industries. Low Carbon Australia works with co-finance partners in the financing programs. For foundries, Low Carbon Australia can offer ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... is coming to the forefront. While occupational health and safety issues are routinely managed and reported in some industries, other issues, such as flexible working arrangements, gender, mental health and professional development are also being emphasised ...

GRESB joins forces with GRI to push sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... reporting standardisation, the GRESB/GRI arrangement is aimed at making the real estate sector among the top-three industries with high standards on sustainability performance within the next three years. GRI has published the Construction and Real Estate ...

Japanese pension plan selects MSCI ESG index as benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... benchmark for this mandate. The index is based on ESG research which assesses companies' relative ESG risk among global industries. We believe that this global view, along with the transparent ESG index methodology, was a key factor in selecting MSCI. ...

Publish What You Pay campaigns for payments transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Launched in June 2011, PWYP Australia is campaigning on two main issues - first the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which will be piloted in Australia from July, and second, that the Australian Securities Exchange ...

Leightons under investigation over payment disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... " The Publish What You Pay movement is working at the moment to develop an Australian case study of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, and what that will do is give companies a framework hopefully to assist them to disclose some ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... that all of the companies in the top 10 have reported on ESG factors for a long time. The characteristics of certain industries, such as mining, put certain companies in a position where reporting and managing ESG matters were more front-of-mind activities. ...

Ken Henry to speak at ACCSR annual conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... government in the Tasmanian Forest Intergovernmental Agreement process, former CEO of the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI); how CSR can help develop new products and markets, chaired by David Knowles, director, philanthropic services ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... policies up to US$8tr by 2030. 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 ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... potentially an opportunity for them to reflect requirements that have been integrated in the EU and US along the [Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative] EITI pathway," he said. "That would point to an ideal opportunity to bring Australia in line ...