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Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... working with industry to develop a framework to enable the monitoring of companies' progress on methane control. With the technology which would substantially eliminate most methane emissions available, progress on this issue is eminently achievable. ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... advertisers now spend more on social media as opposed to traditional media." This move towards social media and digital technology, and traditional broadcast and print media's difficulty in establishing models to capture that spend mean that even when ...

AMP trials smartphone voting for annual general meeting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... 500 AMP shareholders used a smartphone to lodge their proxy votes for the company's May annual general meeting, via technology developed by their registrar, Computershare. AMP reported that more than 7,000 AMP shareholders lodged their proxy votes online ...

Plantic opens expanded bioplastics facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... innovation. "Plantic Technologies was born out of a Government-funded research project in 2000 which invited the clean technology industry to collaboratively find a solution to alternative food packaging," Combet said. "The commercialisation of such ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... economic benefits of positive externalities" Paradice said, such as the social and economic value of renewable energy technology development and implementation. The CEFC's role will be to provide funding and financing to mitigate against some of the ...

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds surveyed saying they actively source investment opportunities in green buildings, 21% in clean technology and 17% in recycling technologies, while 24% use a Best-of-Sector approach to SRI investment, an increase of 6% over 2011. ...

GBST, CAER to offer quantitative ESG data tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Global financial services technology provider GBST and corporate ESG research firm CAER - Corporate Analysis. Enhanced Responsibility are partnering on a quantitative ESG risk management tool aimed at superannuation funds and fund managers. The product ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... portfolio for an institutional investor." See Also: Investor Profile: Local Government Super LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... processing machinery that brought in profits. In 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy after struggling to catch up with digital technology. "There is a clear understanding that the negative social and environmental impacts of business will create a feedback ...

Low Carbon Australia to provide financing to foundries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... investments in energy-efficient capital equipment and low-pollution technologies, processes and products. The AU$800m Clean Technology Investment Program and the $200m Clean Technology Food and Foundries Investment Program provide funding for between ...