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SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... enterprise that will provide accommodation to people in Cairns and Indigenous people from Cape York who travel to Cairns for health services. SEFA has loaned AU$450,000 to Three Sistas, a social enterprise which will buy a former tourism business and ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... assess overall statistical risk of a security, incorporating our proprietary fundamental analysis, the Omega Financial Health Rating. Then what we do, is we have ESG scores and the things that we, that we are looking at for in the ESG side. For each ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Byrne The report found that companies were most likely to disclose policies prohibiting discrimination and occupational health and safety, which were disclosed 86% and 90% of the time respectively across all sectors. The least widely protected labour ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... are exposed to skills shortages in their workforce, and that exposure and companies' strategic responses pose risks to health and safety, to the environment, and to capital expenditure projects for exploration and production, according to a report by ...

Carbon Farming Initiative grants for biochar research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Biochar can be added to soil to sequester carbon and can potentially help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and improve soil health. The projects could additionally help develop CFI methodologies, which farmers can implement to generate carbon credits ...

UKSIF endorses Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... - and the ecosystem services resulting from those assets. Ecosystem goods and services "constitute food, fiber, water, health, energy, climate security and other essential services for everyone," according to the declaration. The initiative will be launched ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability factors, the issue of a sustainably managed and motivated workforce is coming to the forefront. While occupational health and safety issues are routinely managed and reported in some industries, other issues, such as flexible working arrangements ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... start with the working group process in April/May 2012. The four new topics are greenhouse gas emissions, occupational health and safety, corruption, and biodiversity. Other topics are under discussion and will be announced later this year. Q: You mentioned ...

Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... clear measurements of environmental management in most sectors, whereas social is more difficult to measure. Occupational health and safety can be simple in terms of measuring injuries, but 'near misses' are recorded less often. The other challenge with ...

KPMG: agribusiness needs national food policy framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia is 56, and the industry is losing future farmers to the mining industry's lucrative jobs. That aging impact raises health and safety questions and also represents a fundamental change in the relationship between the population that lives on ...