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AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... companies are 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 ...

Christian Super engages with Transfield Services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
Christian Super is engaging with Transfield Services over its contract to provide services at the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island. Although the fund is not divesting from ...

UCA Funds Management adds Transfield Services to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management is adding Transfield Services to its exclusion list because of human rights concerns stemming from Transfields' contract to provide services at the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection offshore processing centres ...

Forest protection CFI project issued 160,000 carbon credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Regulator has issued more than 160,000 carbon credits to a carbon farming project in western New South Wales covering an 8,500-hectare section of native forest. Josh Harris, Climate Friendly The Sunset Ranch Native Forest Protection ...

Oncologist leads drive for tobacco stock divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Since 2011, 16 superannuation funds have divested from AU$1.2 billion in tobacco stocks, and one Melbourne oncologist has made it her cause to persuade the superannuation industry to divest from the rest of what she estimates is a total of AU$8.5 billion ...

CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Cities recognise that climate change is a threat to businesses located within their municipalities, with impacts on property, capital, infrastructure and social impacts to communities, according to research from CDP. CDP has published Protecting Our ...

Addressing the human crisis of climate change displacement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... director of global NGO Displacement Solutions, http://displacementsolutions.org/ which has led international efforts to protect the rights of climate displaced persons. Leckie and associates advocate a four-step approach to dealing with climate displacement ...

CFI a source of economic opportunity for Indigenous groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) has offered opportunities for income generation for carbon abatement and sequestration activities for a number of entities, including Indigenous groups. One of the earliest methodologies approved under the CFI certified ...

CEC analyses impact of removing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... Australian projects, the good news is that renewable energy is coming down in cost. The Renewable Energy Target will help to protect consumers from the power price pain of rising gas prices, while delivering billions of dollars in investment and thousands ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... disclosures to fund members. "The portfolio level disclosure is an important step," she said. "There are protections in there to protect funds - there will be a 60 day lag. I think that it's important, though, that [disclosures are] meaningful to members ...