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Bendigo Wealth to provide support to Cool Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... Wealth, the wealth management division of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, provide financial support for Cool Australia, a not-for-profit that educates Australian students for sustainable outcomes. Cool Australia uses science, maths and English resources to ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... AU$2.9m social return on investment for a typical Stockland retirement village, against a backdrop of a 7% fall in underlying profit for the 2012 financial year. The 2012 annual review is Stockland's first attempt at using the International Integrated ...

The UpSide Interview: Geoff Sinclair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
The Sustainability Report is pleased to present this interview by Katerina Kimmorley with Geoff Sinclair, head of carbon sales and trading, Standard Bank, about how UK banks have made profits out of the Clean Development Mechanism, and the implications ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... goods as part of their supply chain, for example, can be exposed to risks from natural disasters. "In 2011 Nike issued a profit warning blamed on factors such as the increase in the price of cotton and oil supplies," van der Lugt said. "Once the company ...

ClimateWorks Australia name Hill, Ridout to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Prosperity Advisory Panel of the Population Strategy Taskforce. ClimateWorks Australia is an independent notâ€for-Âprofit organisation, founded by the Myer Foundation and Monash University. "Its mission is to catalyse action to substantially reduce ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... fact that the environment or environmental sustainability is seen as less important than what happens in people's economic profit and loss statement, and we need to reflect on that, I think."

Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia has joined the Climate Bond Standard's energy efficiency working group, which will develop criteria to certify energy efficiency-related bonds. Low Carbon Australia will work with representatives from the International Energy Agency ...

Shareholders to face activist lobbying on Woolworths vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
Shareholders in retailer Woolworths Limited will be asked at a November extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to vote on a motion demanding the company limit the poker machines they own to AU$1 bets. GetUp, the activist group behind the campaign to curb ...

Foresters launches Social Investment Australia lending fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... launched a new fund offering financing to non-profits seeking to buy property. SIA has launched the Community Finance Fund Non-Profit, which will "employ community finance and social investment strategies to service and support people, organisations ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... its half year accounts for the six months to 31 December 2011, the company reported a 31% decrease in consolidated net profit after income tax expense as compared to the previous corresponding period - AU$284,115, as compared to AU$414,479 for the previous ...