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CDP signs agreements with SASB, GRI to further standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... efficient economy. "We share the common goal of driving investment decisions and corporate actions to value and protect the Earth's natural capital," said Paul Simpson, CDP CEO. "This alignment will enable companies to elicit the maximum benefit from ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... policy. That's the motivation underpinning this piece in Science. This group of scientists is acting under the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network - GEO BON - discussing how to go about generating better quality and better coverage ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... voting, in this day and age, each company that has an AGM has the mechanics in place to conduct a poll. Therefore, how on earth can you justify a resolution where it's hands in the air?" See Also: Proxy voting error results in Emeco AGM double-count ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... work the land that you understand natural capital." The Natural Capital Declaration was officially launched at the Rio +20 Earth Summit in June 2012, and "calls upon the private and public sectors to work together to create the conditions necessary to ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Calculating the value of the ecosystem in which a company operates can not only provide measures of the company's dependency on services such as water, land, biomass and climate control, but also offers information for strategic consideration of risk ...

Farming, forestry activities proposed for CFI positive list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... carbon. Kiely also pointed to waterponding as well as being beneficial to farmers. Waterponding "is the creation of low earth banks to capture water on scalded claypans in the semi-arid rangelands," according to the department. "A low earth bank is built ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... respondents and 85% of JSE 100 companies that report exposure to similar risks. "Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth, and the water impacts of climate change are likely to be more severe than other countries," said James Day, CDP's director ...

UKSIF endorses Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... will be launched at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). "In the 20 years since the Earth Summit, sustainable investment and finance has moved from the margins to the mainstream," said Penny Shepherd, UKSIF chief ...

Government grants $1.9m for geothermal exploration study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... machine learning in conjunction with other institutions and companies to develop data to locate geothermal sources beneath the Earth's surface. Geothermal energy is generated from intense heat generated by rocks located kilometres underground. It is ...

Proxy voting error results in Emeco AGM double-count

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
A double-counting of proxy votes by a custodial shareholder that led to an initial, apparent vote of 26.4% against the remuneration report of heavy earthmoving equipment solution provider Emeco highlights flaws in the proxy voting system. Because of ...