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ARENA funds AU$5.2m for Renergi biofuel project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... approach would allow green bio-crude to be produced by conversion units at the source of feedstocks and refined into high quality transport biofuels at a large central refinery," Frischknecht said. ""Existing processes require agricultural waste crops ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... corporate treasury, the CFO, the sustainability folks have to sit down and identify if they have enough projects that meet the quality standards and are big enough to be rated and to bother with. Issuers have to decide that it's worth the trouble when ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... contacts is predicated on their performance." Despite the vulnerability of certain countries in the report, the overall quality and percentage of suppliers of setting emissions targets is steadily increasing - 48% of suppliers set targets last year ...

CBRE commits to increasing green space in Australia, NZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... track the impact that increased green space has on rates of absenteeism and employee engagement and will also test air quality in the offices. CBRE is partner in the 202020 Vision, a not-for-profit collaborative initiated aimed at increasing green space ...

Diversity Council Australia urges employer action in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... is to understand the business case," she said. "Whether it's dealing with a lack of talent, the high turnover of high quality women in a workplace, operating in an Asian market, or other issue that they need to address, it comes down to a business issue. ...

Lonsec: responsible investment equity funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... to mainstream, broader benchmarks, he added. "ESG funds by their nature tend to be a little more defensive and have a quality bias, and quality as an investment style has been in favour since the global financial crisis, so that's obviously helped as ...

CSIRO hire Larry Marshall as chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... confident that Dr Marshall will lead CSIRO in a manner which ensures that it continues to provide advice of the highest quality to Government as well as provide best practice collaboration with the private sector." McKeon thanked current Dr Megan Clark ...

Sustainalytics hires Cheryl Gustitus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... team at Watson Wyatt (now Towers Watson) and worked for nearly a decade at Institutional Shareholder Services. "The high quality of Sustainalytics' products and people runs deep," said Gustitus. "With the increasing integration of ESG factors into mainstream ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... understanding of the relationship between corporate and societal value 4. Change mandates and incentives 5. Improve the quality of data provided by companies and investors 6. Provide an enabling policy environment Source: KPMG

Local property companies continue GRESB outperformance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... efficiency and sustainability in real estate, and GRESB will be at the forefront of providing increasingly granular, high-quality data to the industry," said Nils Kok, GRESB's executive director. Institutional investors use GRESB's data to assess investments ...