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MBS launches Centre for Sustainability and Business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainability. We also want to drive the creation of electives that are specific to the topic, such as sustainable procurement, and we want to drive into other classes to include more sustainability relevant material.... At the heart of it, Melbourne ...

KPMG Australia acquires Action Sustainability Asia Pacific

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... our capability," Boele said. "On the sourcing side, KPMG offers has been on the risk side, and they bring the social procurement opportunity. On the built environment side, they have a big, deep sustainability perspective, and tech capability, one I ...

Cromwell Property Group reports on sustainability progress for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... necessary for reporting under the Modern Slavery Act. "That is becoming quite a significant game-changer in terms of procurement and stakeholder pillars and suppliers," Cowling said. "We've continued to make really strong progress, using the PCA database ...

Singapore-based Vena Energy issues US$325 million green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Asia-Pacific region, with over 11GW in operation, construction and development. Vena Energy manages the development, design, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance of its solar, wind and battery energy storage systems in Australia, India ...

Global green bond market continues to grow, expand: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... example of further expansion and development of what Starbucks started so successfully. This was based on sustainable procurement and improvement of nutritional guidance programmes." J.P. Morgan acted as Sustainability Bond Structuring agent on the June ...

Genex Power closes $192 million certified green debt funding package

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... to the grid as it prepares for the upcoming retirement of coal powered generation" Genex has agreed an engineering, procurement and consruction contract and an opration and maintenance contract with Beon Energy Solutions, a leading EPC companies in Australia ...

Impact Investment Partners on Indigenous Infrastructure Investment Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... benefits of that?" The fund is being geared towards increasing Indigenous direct economic engagement through employment, procurement and leasing from Indigenous landholders as well as establishing itself as a trusted investment vehicle for long-term ...

ACSI research outlines guidelines to assessing Modern Slavery risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... exposures. The report noted that the financial services sector could have exposures through corporate and operational procurement, particularly with IT procurement and hardware contracts. "Australian banks face challenges monitoring their IT supply chains," ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... policy activities," Lynch said. "There is more around outcomes-based commissioning and contracting, as well as social procurement, and the desire for more projects in government, particularly in infrastructure projects in Victoria where there's a social ...

Deloitte survey finds procurement leaders lack visibility in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
Procurement leaders around the world "don't have enough visibility" in their supply chains, raising the spectre of compliance risks with the widely anticipated Australian version of the Modern Slavery Act, Deloitte cautions. Leeora Black, partner, Deloitte ...