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Call for EUA inclusion in Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... efficiency projects can have a 15-20 year project life, meaning that there could be significant duration mismatch. "The nature of energy efficiency projects is that they might have a 15-20 year life," Bocskay said. "The ERF is only going to purchase ...

CDSB expands natural capital in new reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... reasons that it's not fit for purpose. Accounting rules focus on disclosure of known risks based on past events. The whole nature of the thoughts we're looking at is that they're known risks, but not in a quantifiable sense and not based necessarily ...

Stewardship: the costs of developing social enterprises

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... financing. Part of that stewardship cost and process is the time spent by all parties to familiarise themselves with the nature and needs of the sector - for-profit businesses that provide a strong social or environmental outcome as part of their mission. ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... that will help to drive more scrutiny and more thoughtfulness and more action with regards to companies understanding the nature of their complete supply chain or the indirect suppliers and direct suppliers, and see how they're going to work more directly ...

Integrated Reporting framework launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... quite definitively that there are issues related with integrated reporting and information which is future-oriented in nature. tTe case law where directors have been penalised in relation to corporate reporting relates to specifically financial reporting ...

CDP: ASX200 companies set short term goals for C02 reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... Zealand. "The targets set by most ASX companies are short term and do not yet adequately respond to the scale or long term nature of the climate change challenge that we face. Only four companies reported absolute emission reduction targets with a target ...

CDP calls for corporate stewardship to manage water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... achievable targets first - water efficiency in direct operations," CDP said in the report. "Due to water's temporal and spatial nature, water in one basin is not the same as water in another basin so applying a blanket strategy that focuses on reducing ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... notes that almost US$35 billion of bonds have yields of 5% or higher. Climate-themed bonds also tend to be long-term in nature - almost US$87 billion is available in tenors longer than 10 years, and US%54 billion have tenors in the range of five to 10 ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... advisory groups have all come out publicly and said they will be voting against the candidacy. It exposes the unrepresentative nature of that process that three private organisations can advise large institutions to direct proxy votes without accountability ...

New co-op body to stress economic, social value of model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... to bring in the voice of the member-owned business sector." Mutuals and co-ops operate to economic and social goals by nature, but because the social goals are intrinsic to the foundation of a member-owned organization, companies often don't articulate ...