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Australian National University Investment Office selects CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
CAER will provide the Australian National University (ANU)'s Investment Office with environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings and company reports as part of a new agreement. Duncan Paterson, CAER CEO ANU's Investment Office manages the university's ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... in integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Australia has been too little and too slow, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR). Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social ...

Potential impact investment market estimated at $32 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... rental housing, and the Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund, that will provide $200 million in venture capital for Australian renewable energy companies. Rickards also pointed to the recently launched New South Wales social benefit bonds as another ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... go from a macro level system to a micro level system. The Water Accounting Standards Board (WASB) has developed the Australian Water Accounting Standard (AWAS), which quantifies information about water, rights and other claims to water, and obligations ...

CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... policy, targets for network businesses for demand reduction and lowered consumer costs. They would be enabled by the Australian energy regulator allowing network businesses to share in the future savings of avoided network infrastructure in order to ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... encourage governments to do more." The ACCA report broke down stakeholders' positions by country as well as by theme. The Australian stakeholders that participated in the analysis collectively said that the weaker commitments were shaped by three factors ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... risks matter, one of the biggest changes that Ann Byrne has seen in her five years as chief executive officer of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO Byrne recently announced that she will step down as CEO at ...

Ann Byrne to step down as ACSI CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
Ann Byrne, chief executive of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) will step down in October. Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO Byrne has been ACSI CEO for more than five years, and recently informed ACSI's Committee of Management of her decision. ...

Graham Dooley new president of Australian Water Association

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
Graham Dooley, chairman of Blue Sky Water Partners, has been appointed president of the Australian Water Association (AWA), the Australian water industry body. Dooley has been involved with the AWA since 1983, serving as federal secretary, president ...

NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... partnerships, in 2012 NAB developed a supplier diversity program to incorporate Supply Nation certified Indigenous business, Australian Disability Enterprises, women-owned business and social enterprises into the supply chain. NAB incorporated two Indigenous ...