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SMF stepping up advocacy for environmental upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... of US$33 million, according to PACE Now, a not-for-profit organisation that provides information and resources to stakeholders in the US PACE market. SMF and PACE Now have an "ongoing relationship", Bocskay noted. SMF and PACE Now have previously exchanged ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... forcing companies to measure and manage externalities - "new regulations and standards; the growing influence of stakeholders; and changing market dynamics driven by economic, social and environmental megaforces." "Mega forces are increasingly part of ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... controlled by "a small identifiable group of long-term owners" where governance processes primarily aim "to protect stakeholders such as creditors and employees, rather than the owners." As companies recognise that they are competing with the same pool ...

DJSI 2014 review names ASX companies industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... development and marketing at RepRisk. "We believe that dynamic, timely data from third-party commentary and external stakeholders, such as media, NGOs, government bodies and others, is a critical component of corporate sustainability analysis. This type ...

Local property companies continue GRESB outperformance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... TIAA-CREF Financial Services. "GRESB enables us to quantify our relative performance for our investors and other stakeholders."

SVA calls for $200-250m funding for social investment bank

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... that outlines barriers to increased investment in impact investments. The FSI solicited additional feedback from stakeholders. The FSI interim report said that one solution to encourage further impact investing might be tax concessions, but that those ...

Challenges, opportunities in Australia's energy future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Energy Flagship. CSIRO recently undertook analysis in The Future Grid Forum with the collaboration of a number of stakeholders and generated four scenarios for retail consumption and interaction with utilities, each of which have "far-reaching implications ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... fund for social innovation. EuropeLab is working with the Social Innovation Bank (Santa Casa do Lisboa) and other stakeholders in Portugal on building the impact investing market, Addarii said. More locally, here in Australia, there is capital for investment ...

CDSB consultation finds broad support for framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... broad support for an expanded reporting framework proposed by the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), but stakeholders are calling for more clarification on alignment. Earlier this year, CDSB released a draft version of an expanded reporting framework ...

Net Balance: sustainability assurance increase in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... 'improve your process' and 'improve your systems' to recommendations around 'communicate your outcomes better to stakeholders', which means could you tell a more interesting story, or make it a story and not just a disclosure document. I think we will ...