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CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... information, and there is a need to help people to provide assurance on all kinds of information. It's not just for full-scale sustainability reporting - it's equally important when it comes to individual supply agreements, procurement arrangements where ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... over the past two years. To paraphrase their answer: what businesses are doing is good, what others are doing is bad. On a scale from -100 to +100, the net score for 'changes to business processes' was +43 - i.e. those changes were a strong positive ...

Combet announces phase-out of solar credit mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... easing upward pressure on electricity prices and supporting households and suppliers who install solar PV." Under the Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) multiplier, the government offers a certain number of renewable energy certificates for every ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... struggle with is that 10 year hedge fix - by doing a different asset allocation, can institutions step up in sufficient scale to make different types of investments than they have in the past as a hedge to all the other investments in the portfolio that ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... uncertain about future costs and it's added a whole set area of perceived risk around investing in energy efficiency or small-scale co-generation, because of the increased uncertainty about the future policy and pricing context of the marketplace. So ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... governance arrangements and other sorts of capital, including our natural capital, our attractiveness to migrants. In fact, the scale of our continent has probably blunted our sensibility, our sensitivity to what is the sustainable use of our natural ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... within the scope of traditional experience, and the final scenario is that this is absolutely transformational change on a scale and magnitude that we've never experienced. You have to come to a decision as to where we think we're in. is it incremental ...

Clean Energy Council: keep Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... more than 1.7m Australian households moving to protect themselves from fossil-fuel-driven price rises by installing small-scale systems such as solar panels and solar hot water. In addition, the equivalent of more than 2.1m households is now powered ...

Solaris Investment Management augments distribution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... over the management of its distribution services in July. "With AU$4bn in funds under management, we are now of a size and scale to manage the distribution of our products and services with our own dedicated team to ensure the best service and responsiveness ...

ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... (the number of disadvantaged people able to have access to programs and benefit from them) is adequate; or if seeking more scale in programs such as MoneyMinded and Saver Plus in particular, should be a strategic objective in the future," the Allen Consulting ...