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International Integrated Reporting Council launches Public Sector Pioneer Network

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... sector organizations are increasingly challenged with maintaining or improving outcomes within the same or reducing resources," said Paul Druckman, CEO, IIRC. "Communicating how, and how well prepared they are, to achieve this will be critical to public ...

Boards more diverse, but ACSI calls for more "skin in the game"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Hagart said. "We suggest to them that what is often portrayed as a difficult decision isn't really, and that there are resources they can draw on. The Australian Institute of Company Directors can facilitate it. Head-hunters for directors are on the ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... reporting on the emissions intensity of its infrastructure and utilities portfolio and breakdowns of lending to the natural resources and CleanTech and environmental services sectors. Westpac has also updated its climate change and environmental position ...

Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... chair The working group was brought together by the Climate Bonds Initiative, in collaboration with Ceres, the Water Resources Institute and CDP, and includes representatives from organisations including the OECD, Asia Development Bank, Imperial College ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... political reaction to Australian National University (ANU)'s decision to divest from Santos, Newcrest Mining, Iluka Resources, Sandfire Resources, Oil Search, Independence Group and Sirius because of their fossil fuel assets. The seven companies represent ...

Lonsec: responsible investment equity funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... than the index over one and three year periods to August 2014." The fact that RI funds are at least tilted away from resources companies is one contributor to the outperformance of RI funds, said Steven Sweeney, senior investment analyst at Lonsec and ...

UNSW issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... devalue its meaning as a universal framework. The challenge was persuading people that we should put the effort and resources into producing a sustainability report when there wasn't a mandatory obligation for the organisation to do so. Given the competing ...

Corporate governance: moving to "owner relations" model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... CFO. They want to engage on governance issues, and governance issues these days mean ESG.... The larger funds have the resources to have their own governance teams to work with investment teams, and the governance teams have a very different perspective ...

SMF stepping up advocacy for environmental upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... completed with a value of US$33 million, according to PACE Now, a not-for-profit organisation that provides information and resources to stakeholders in the US PACE market. SMF and PACE Now have an "ongoing relationship", Bocskay noted. SMF and PACE ...

MSCI assesses future carbon exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... based on our proprietary estimation model." MSCI generates estimate of future carbon emissions intensity for mining and resources companies in particular by analysing disclosures around future reserves, Lee said. 'For future estimation, we look to the ...