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A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Same pasta, same business, but different result. Because $EBIT is the denominator in the equation, changes in earnings will shift the numbers more than a change in emissions. Indeed, a like-for-like measure such as transport emissions per carton moved ...

Local Government Super leader on managing climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... destruction," he said. "[Asset owners] can only smooth that by investing in low-carbon hedges. We're not talking about an enormous shift - 5% hedge, going from a 2% hedge to even 5% would help to protect their portfolios significantly. It would also ...

Investor groups call for new climate change policy responses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... gas emission reduction targets; timetables for these targets, alongside enforceable legal mechanisms; and incentives to shift the risk/reward balance away from high-carbon in favour of low-carbon investment," the groups said. "Investors are ready to ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
The recently published Australia in the Asian Century white paper is focused on structural changes to the Australian economy and society that will put the country on the path to respond to the opportunities and reduce risks of some of the challenges. ...

New Forests issues second sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... not only to mitigate these risks through our investment strategies, but also to view them as opportunities to promote a shift toward sustainable investment that balances economic, environmental, and social pressures on the land, and in particular forests. ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... federal, state or even local level, and all of those interventions have been very changeable through time - witness the shift in feed-in tariff arrangements for solar power, the insulation program, the Green Building Fund, and other grant programs which ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... just an exercise in spin or re-packaging environmental terms in so-called hard-headed language. It helps us make a critical shift in our thinking, it enables us to think in a much more integrated way about linkages between social, economic and environmental ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
Institutional investors globally are conducting climate change risk assessments of portfolios, with 26% making changes to their investment strategy or decision-making as a result, according to a Mercer study commissioned by international climate change ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... to do. We want to bring about real change as opposed to getting just media attention, and that's really the fundamental shift we have made."

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... towards sustainability in investments and operations by superannuation funds. Despite short term uncertainty over policy shift should the opposition Liberal coalition take government at the next election, the long term reality of climate change is leading ...