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Stewardship: the costs of developing social enterprises

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian social enterprise and impact investment sectors are growing, but the process of building a pipeline of sustainable social enterprises that are developed enough to attract debt and equity financing is still painstaking. There is still ...

BCCM forms task force to examine public service delivery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
The Business Council of Co-Operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) has assembled a national task force that will prepare a green paper examining the "viability and roles for co-operatives and mutuals in delivering key public services." Melina Morrison, BCCM CEO ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
When it comes to sustainability issues in 2014, corporate Australia is likely to focus on the transition to the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 guidelines, defining and reducing environmental and social risks in the supply chain and defining the social ...

Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The increased interest in using debt and equity instruments to fund social enterprises in Australia is leading financiers, investors and government bodies to consider various vehicles for financing businesses from within the community, including a category ...

Climate Bonds Standard tackles low-carbon transport

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The Climate Bonds Standard has established a Low-Carbon Transport working group which will develop eligibility criteria to certify low-carbon transport-related bonds. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds chair The group consists of Michael Replogle, managing ...

CDP: companies unaware of deforestation supply chain risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
Companies around the world are unaware of deforestation risks in agricultural commodities because of lack of traceability in global supply chains, certification challenges and regulatory uncertainty, according to CDP data. Launching the CDP Global Forests ...

ARENA announces launch of wave-to-electricity unit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
The world's first wave-energy-to-electricity unit has been launched in Port MacDonnell, South Australia, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced. ARENA provided funding to Oceanlinx, which designed and constructed the one megawatt ...

Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Political dysfunction in the United States has affected BlackRock's rating of its willingness to repay sovereign debt, according to the quarterly update of the BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index (BSRI). The BSRI focused on the US and what it labels the ...

Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Northern Trust has developed an emerging markets fund made up of companies that have both lower carbon emissions and less fossil fuel reserves. The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) will invest in the Northern Trust Emerging Markets Custom ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The United Nations Statistics Division has developed an experimental ecosystem accounting system to quantify ecosystem services and conditions in physical and monetary terms. Although the proposed accounting system is initially intended for governmental ...