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Melbourne wins energy efficient built environment award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... retrofitting existing buildings and setting minimum standards for new buildings, leading to the highest density of new green buildings in Australia. "We know that sustainability and liveability are inexorably linked," Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said in ...

Westpac focuses on demographics, environment in strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... level of support for those sectors that we think will represent the bulk of our activities - renewable energy, green buildings and to a lesser extent waste management as well," she said. "A lot of that funding will go to supporting direct activities ...

MSCI: Asia Pacific, EU green building market show potential

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... diversified sub-sectors have higher levels of green building certification. REITs that have a higher proportion of "green buildings" can have an increase in either market share or investment returns, according to the research, by Mario Lopezâ€Alcala ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... of return on projects because you work with tenants to mutually exploit benefits," he said. "The tax breaks for green buildings policy has been discontinued, but an EUA, by its very structure, is capable of delivering the same outcome to building owners ...

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... investment choice, with 25% of superannuation funds surveyed saying they actively source investment opportunities in green buildings, 21% in clean technology and 17% in recycling technologies, while 24% use a Best-of-Sector approach to SRI investment ...
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