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GRI releases guidance for reporting on ecosystem services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... services. Ecosystems are biological environments that include living and non-living things like plants, animals, soil and water. The guidance was developed in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... the 2011 financial year of AU$553m, an increase of AU$521.6m over last year, while decreasing energy, greenhouse gas and water intensity across its entire portfolio. DEXUS owns, manages and develops office, industrial and retail properties with total ...

Regulatory barriers slowing cogeneration technology usage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... produce electricity," according to the report." In cogeneration systems the waste heat from the engine is used for space, water or process heating and in trigeneration systems it can also be converted to cold water for cooling through an absorption chiller. ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... first stage of PUMA's EP&L statement, issued earlier this year, addressed the company's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and water consumption, both within the company's operations, and critically, down the supply chain. There are two further stages to ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... "Typically, we only want to invest in proven technologies such as wind and hydro, although we are dipping the toe in the water with solar and geothermal. But if you're moving outside of hydro and wind, it's riskier territory and the risk-return expectations ...

Carbon price an "entry point" for sustainability discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... data, but it can be done. Other sustainability indicators, some of them are clearly sourced from financial data, such as water and waste charges, transport costs, and others are sourced from data that might be there in existing financial system or could ...

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... down that path. We would generally hold our properties for longer than 10 years, but if a fund has to pay off energy and water efficiency upgrades for 10 years or more, it's difficult to justify large capital expenses. It doesn't mean that there aren't ...

ASX100 CEO pay increases faster than stock value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... study notes that CEO cash pay in 2010 - the value of pay disclosed excluding share based payments - has fallen from the high-water line of 2008, it is higher than any other year before 2007, despite S&P/ASX100 declines of 30% to the 10 years to 30 June ...

Australian property funds top GRESB list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... property companies has found that the companies on average have reduced their energy consumption in 2010 by almost 3% and water consumption by nearly 5%. Australian property companies dominated, holding positions in six of GRESB's global top 10. The ...

Local Government Super properties awarded 6 NABERS stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and measures a building's performance during operation in terms of energy, water, waste and indoor environment. The Office of Environment and Heritage recently extended the NABERS rating scale from a maximum ...