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Disclosing sustainability risks, engaging stakeholders vital to corporate interests

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability risks, companies and other organizations need to do more, including setting targets to reduce energy and water consumption and identifying and meeting with stakeholders, according to Professor Carol Adams, pro vice-chancellor (Sustainability) ...

Paper guides investors to ESG investment integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... approach, investors will invest into companies that generate positive externalities, such as clean tech, renewable energy or water companies. "This approach is not dissimilar to buying a long-term portfolio insurance as a hedge to ensure multi-period ...

R. M. Williams Agricultural Holdings to fund NT property conservation with carbon rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... agriculture and we see an exciting opportunity in carbon sequestration," Pearse said in a statement. "By actively managing fire, water, weeds and feral animals on this former pastoral property we'll encourage natural revegetation, removing carbon dioxide ...

ACSI release governance guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... management, it specifies "all material environmental aspects impacted by the company's operations, including impacts to air, water, land, biodiversity and species distribution, human health, energy consumption and waste generation," as well as the potential ...

Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... "Australia is leading in terms of environmental questions," Kok said. "It's on everyone's radar screen questions of how energy, water and waste can be improved. But social is newer. Social for new developments has been around for a longer in Europe ...

FSC, ACSI release ESG reporting guide for ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... environment heading, the guide addresses climate change; environmental management system and compliance, efficiency (waste, water, energy) and other environmental issues such as toxics and biodiversity. Under the social heading, the guide addresses workplaces ...

Sustainability a key theme for investor awareness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... problem for the next three years, but sustainability is about peak stuff, whether that's peak oil or rare earths or food or water or whatever," Hodgson said in a Towers Watson piece. "On major sovereign default, I don't think that will happen within ...

Carbon tax regime to affect liability for joint ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Robinson. Grant Anderson The carbon tax will cover the stationary energy, industrial processing, mining and solid landfill/waste water treatment sectors, and applies to facilities (or activities) in those sectors that individually produce more than 25,000 ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... their engagement programme before it's finalized each year. We support a number of collaborative initiatives - IGCC, CDP, Water Disclosure Project, GRESB, UNPRI clearinghouse initiatives. In terms of our own direct engagement, we manage the ASX50 internally. ...

PUMA's environmental P&L reporting: a model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 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. The company concluded that for ...