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Canada adopts mining payment regime, Australia next?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... publish country by country and project by project payments over â,¬100,000 to governments wherever they operate. The United States has Dodd-Frank Act section 1504, which demands similar disclosures. With Canada adopting similar its legislation, the ...

Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... critical step in transitioning confidently and meaningfully to a low-carbon, climate resilient economy." In the United States alone, there are predictions that anywhere from US$00 billion to US$1 trillion in clean water infrastructure investment will ...

CSIRO hire Larry Marshall as chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... capital firm specialising in creating Australian technology companies and growing them globally in Asia and the United States," according to CSIRO. Marshall will join CSIRO in January 2015. Marshall was educated at Macquarie University and holds a doctorate ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... accountability and transparency between shareholders and company management. AMP Capital pointed to the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia as examples where institutional investors have outgrown individual investors and there are "strong ...

PRI signatory assets top US$45 trillion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Overall, since April 2013, the PRI has added more than 200 new signatories, including Harvard University Endowment (United States), Credit Suisse Private Banking & Wealth Management (Switzerland), Green Investment Bank (United Kingdom), Unilever Pension ...

New Forests releases 2013 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... the final close of the Tropical Asia Forest Fund (TAFF) and expanded the Forest Carbon Partners (FCP) fund in the United States into a second phase. During that time, the company also purchased an operating sawmilling business, Timberlink Australia ...

Stewardship: the costs of developing social enterprises

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... innovating in this space are also small. Sandy Blackburn-Wright, a co-founder of IMPACT Australia, notes that in the United States and United Kingdom, there is more government partnering with institutional investors to create larger pools of funds and ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... cited various countries' legislation in the area, including the application of the long-standing Lacey Act in the United States and potential developments in Asian markets as well. "We really believe in high quality third party certification," Hanlon ...

Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Political dysfunction in the United States has affected BlackRock's rating of its willingness to repay sovereign debt, according to the quarterly update of the BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index (BSRI). The BSRI focused on the US and what it labels the ...

GNDI comments on proposed Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Malaysian Alliance of Corporate Directors (MACD), and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) in the United States.