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Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... The company's portfolio does look to invest in companies involved in environmental protection, clean energy, recycling, water and waste management, education and healthcare. "The portfolio is weighted towards stocks in the financial services, telecoms ...

Bendigo Wealth to provide support to Cool Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... outcomes. Cool Australia uses science, maths and English resources to educate primary and secondary students about waste, water, biodiversity, energy use and climate change. The five year financial support is targeted at putting Cool Australia's materials ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... consideration as an economic ecological and social asset. Natural capital is described as the planet's natural assets - soil, air, water, flora and fauna - and the ecosystem services resulting from those assets. Ecosystem goods and services "constitute ...

ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... according to DJSI's report. DJSI highlighted GPT Group's climate change strategy, its monitoring of energy use, their integrated water cycle management framework to optimise water consumption on a site-by-site basis, and its comprehensive approach to ...

Clean Energy Council: keep Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... protect themselves from fossil-fuel-driven price rises by installing small-scale systems such as solar panels and solar hot water. In addition, the equivalent of more than 2.1m households is now powered by large-scale renewables such as hydro and wind." ...

Local Government Super recognised at Green Globe Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... retrofit of Carnegie Morgan Hill House (120 Sussex Street, Sydney). LGS used technology in the retrofit that has reduced water usage by 46%, energy usage by more than 54%, and led to the building being certified to a 5.5 NABERS energy rating. The Green ...

Australian property continues to lead GRESB performers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Fund manager, Charles Moore said that since FY2007, the fund has made its portfolio 30.4% more energy efficient, 21.3% more water efficient and producing 30.2% lower emissions intensity." "The reason we take sustainability so seriously is because we ...

UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... discussing those findings with companies to address those issues. Other issues that institutional investors identified include: water, human rights, bribery and corruption, unconventional fuels, which the PRI identifies as oil sands, fracking and deepwater ...

Retail supply chain policies pose sustainability challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Australian retailers need to maintain cost control, including targeting supply chain efficiencies, but those efficiency gains must not come at the expense of the sustainability of the supply chain, according to a report by AMP Capital. Australian retailers ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... the ecosystem in which a company operates can not only provide measures of the company's dependency on services such as water, land, biomass and climate control, but also offers information for strategic consideration of risk and return, according to ...