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Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 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 Natural Capital Declaration, an initiative ...

Citi: "Carbon bubble" represents 1-2% of ASX200 value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... power generation declined dramatically due to constraints on use stemming from environmental, climate change and public health concerns and the potential for the dramatic fall in the cost of renewable energy sources. "There have been various studies ...

Australian property continues to lead GRESB performers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... tenant engagement - 88% have a program of tenant engagement in place - with about a third of the respondents addressing health and wellbeing aspects - factors that affect tenant satisfaction and productivity." More than 80% of Australian property companies ...

UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... ecosystem services, labour standards of direct employees, public contributions and lobbying activities, waste and pollution, health and safety and vote confirmation. See Also: Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

Low Carbon Australia financing for local council upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... in New South Wales will undergo energy efficiency overhauls via part funding from Low Carbon Australia. Cardina Shire's health and recreation facility has received AU$225,913 in Low Carbon Australia finance and a AU$369,582 grant from the federal government's ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Development, also known as Rio+20, and also supports the fracking risk disclosure guidelines issued by the Investor Environmental Health Network, calling for the minimisation of air emissions from fracking operations. "Methane is more than twenty times ...

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 ...