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DEXUS building awarded international prize for innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Commercial Architecture', a student scholarship program that promotes sustainable commercial high-rise design at the University of New South Wales. 1 Bligh Street has a 6 Star Green Star Office Design v2 Certified rating and is designed to achieve a ...

Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund funds Brisbane Metals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... matched international investment in an Australian innovation that draws on world leading technology developed at the University of Queensland," said Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson in a media statement. "These funds will provide the ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... being built under the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme." Van der Lugt is a senior associate of Stellenbosch University Business School (Cape Town) and Utopies Consulting (Paris). He has worked with the United Nations and business in corporate ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... of achieving sustainable targets, said panellists participating in a discussion accompanying the launch of La Trobe University 's 2011 sustainability report. "Sustainability reporting for us is an important piece of information for us to asses where ...

The UpSide interview: Prof. Michael Grubb

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... chair of the board of Climate Strategies and he is a senior research associate at the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge University (half time), and editor-in-chief of the journal Climate Policy. Kimmorley presents this interview, one in a series of discussions ...

Accountancy profession a driver of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... accountants need to consider sustainability issues from a number of perspectives, according to two professors from the University of South Australia's Centre for Accounting, Governance and Sustainability (CAGS). Corporate sustainability as a complex ...

Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... related to water, said Professor Jayne Godfrey, Dean of the College of Business and Economics at the Australian National University and co-editor of the book. "If there are elements of water risk at, for example, a mining company or a pulp and paper ...

AGL Energy, First Solar granted $130m for solar project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Energy Agency (ARENA). The federal government will also provide AU$40.7m under the Education Investment Fund to the University of Queensland and University of New South Wales to conduct related research. The NSW Government has also committed to provide ...

AMP hires Ross Andrews as ESG research associate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... the mining and energy sectors. He has a Masters in Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management from Monash University and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Western Australia.

Carbon Farming Initiative grants for biochar research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... funded under the Biochar Capacity Building Program, a part of the Government's Carbon Farming Initiative. James Cook University was granted AU143,079 for a project to quantify the stable content of biochar from common feedstock types, leading to an offset ...