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Carbon tax regime to affect liability for joint ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... life projects." Anderson takes a sanguine view about the impact of a carbon tax on joint venture projects in affected industries. "Investors, whether they're overseas or domestic, will price carbon liabilities into an investment," he said. "It's just ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... the agricultural sector is excluded from the scheme, as is petrol for households, while domestic commercial transport industries are subject to the tax. Treasury estimates industries that are 90% of employment account for less than 10% of carbon emissions. ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management reports on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... further improvements in ESG related activities. In particular, the firm discussed its participation in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). CFSGAM became an EITI signatory in 2009 and in 2010 focused on its participation in the body ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... transition to a low-carbon economy without detrimentally impacting on local and international competitiveness of major industries such as mining, and encourages the development and use of low-carbon technology. The council originally developed its climate ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... coverage and the depth of its analysis," Fryer said. "We look at the financial dimension of ESG, taking a top-down look at industries and identify the key drivers of risk and return from an ESG perspective," Fryer said. "Firstly, we identify a number ...

New water accounting standard to measure quantity, rights and obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... it, the purpose here is to bring about uniformity in approach, and uniformity across different entities and different industries, public or private sector, and that is important because it gives the accountability and transparency that we're looking ...

Finsia drafts principles to disclose, address gender divide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... commerce graduates. However, women represent just 31% of managers and 4% of CEOs in the Australian finance and insurance industries, the report showed. The paper also pointed to a 2010 Finsia member opinion poll of over 800 male and female finance industry ...

AGL wins award for sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... benchmarked across a wider field," the panel noted. The judging panel was made up of Victorian Department of Primary Industries Energy Sector Development Division Director Ralph Griffiths, Latrobe Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability's ...

Government introduces carbon emission pricing plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
... sector that maintains viability and reliability of supply, and ensure that our emissions-intensive and trade-exposed industries are not disadvantaged in the absence of a global price on carbon," Tarrant said. "In relation to today's announcement, until ...

Climate change a portfolio risk: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
... Strategic Asset Allocation. 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 ...