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Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... also integrating climate change into their risk management models, pointing to the ways in which banks factor carbon emission pricing into how they lend to power generation companies that utilise coal-fired generators. "Big institutional banks are factoring ...

City of Melbourne certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The City of Melbourne has been certified carbon neutral under National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS) by Low Carbon Australia. "As part of our work we're delivering new waste management solutions, upgrading several of our council buildings by installing ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Institutional investors must take action in the investment chain, at the level of their invested companies and at the systemic market level to manage the amount of leakage in the system that reduces assets in a low-return environment, according to Mercer. ...

Low Carbon Australia forms alliance with Wiley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... anaerobic ponds which will fuel new energy-efficient boilers. Wiley's custom engineered solution will reduce the carbon emission intensity for steam production by 64% and improve local air quality by removing odorous biogas. Last year, Wiley was also ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... for Strategic Asset Allocation, which predicted that institutional investors could be hit by economic costs of carbon emission policies up to US$8tr by 2030 if the international community's mitigation response to carbon emission is strong. The report ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... coordination on institutional investors and concluded that institutional investors could be hit by economic costs of carbon emission policies up to US$8tr by 2030, according to Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation. If ...

ANZ discloses ESG metrics in 2012 shareholder review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... training in their sensitive sector lending policies and human rights statement, and increasing their lending to lower carbon emission power generation by 15-20% by 2020. The company also noted that they had evaluated their pilot revised environmental ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Diversified property group Charter Hall has reported establishing a corporate responsibility and sustainability (CR&S) working group and increased embedding of environmental, social and governance issues in their businesses objectives in its first sustainability ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
If you eat or drink in Australia, you're likely to have been a Woolworths customer once or twice this year. If not, you may have bought something in a big box from BigW or Masters, as Woolworths pushes to match its doppelganger Wesfarmers in every sector. ...

Local Government Super leader on managing climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
The Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) has released a global climate investment index ranking the world's largest institutional asset owners on how they invest to manage climate risk. Australia's Local Government Super (LGS) was ranked the top institutional ...