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Foresters Community Finance funding for early stage ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... units, and that these two things in conjunction de-risk the proposition." Foresters have previously told The Sustainability Report they charge a management fee of 1.4% on their funds. "In terms of the fees on the fund, as the fund manager, we charge ...

Companies lag on implementing UN Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... are "moving from good intentions to significant actions," the organisation said in its Global Corporate Sustainability Report 2013, which was based on survey responses from 1,712 companies in 113 countries - around 25% of all signatories. The survey ...

YES BANK signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Capital Awards and several adjacent initiatives." YES BANK recently became the first Indian bank to release a sustainability report certified at the "A" level under the Global Reporting Initiative's 3.1 guidelines. The bank said that as part of its commitment ...

AECOM employees to support Pollinate Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... target market in Bangalore is the residents of slums who earn day wages. Pollinate Energy previously told The Sustainability Report that women earn around 200 rupees a day on average and men can earn 300 to 500 rupees per day on average. If people have ...

Christian Super invests in microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Triodos, which operates a debt fund, considered a defensive investment, Christian Super had previously told The Sustainability Report. "From our perspective, micro-insurance was a logical next step in terms of providing financial services to people at ...

CEFC in active discussions with project proponents

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Yates. CEFC CEO Oliver Yates The CEFC officially began investing in 1 July, but Yates previously told The Sustainability Report that the organisation had begun evaluating potential projects ahead of that formal launch. As a result, within the first few ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
The corporate sustainability commitments outlined in the Rio+20 2012 outcome document are too weak and represent a missed opportunity to catalyse corporate action, according to a new report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... using the CFI Reforestation Modelling Tool ​ methodology for its two projects, telling The Sustainability Report that it is the only currently approved methodology that does not entail destructive sampling. Both sites are in Victoria - Old ...

CBA receives upgraded score in EIRIS sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... sustainability performance, one of five "mega cap" companies to receive upgraded scores in the EIRIS Global Sustainability Report 2013. EIRIS's sustainability ratings assess corporate sustainability performance on an A-E scale. The ratings combine EIRIS' ...

Ernst Ligteringen: G4 and the third industrial revolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... executive. Ernst Ligteringen, GRI chief executive Ligteringen is in Australia this week and spoke to The Sustainability Report about the latest iteration of the GRI standards, G4. G4 was launched in May and is a significantly revised document and places ...