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Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... achieve various targets. That whole process of getting people engaged is a really important part of the change towards building sustainability performance. It also gives us something to talk to key stakeholders about. When you set out some numbers and ...

Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... with representatives from the International Energy Agency, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, US Green Building Council, the Office of the State Treasurer of California and others. The Climate Bond Standard announced that the working ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... that portfolio conservatively leveraged with, say $50m, the previous wording would need to consider all that debt on the building seeking to enter an EUA. That is, a building worth $10m with $50m of debt would be obviously overleveraged. The wording ...

IIGCC urges greater energy efficiency for EU property sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... to aid in refurbishing existing built stock and to exploit opportunities for sustainability improvements throughout a building's lifecycle, according to a paper published by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). IIGCC represent ...

Low Carbon Australia financing for local council upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... towards $207,880 in upgrades at the Great Lakes Aquatic and Leisure Centre and the Great Lakes council administration building in NSW. "These upgrades should reduce the electricity costs of the two buildings by 12%, or approximately $30,000 per year ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Excellence found that there is USD$174bn worth of climate-themed bonds outstanding today, covering sectors including energy, building and industry, climate finance, water, waste and pollution controls, agriculture and forestry. Green bonds are tied to ...

Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... already existing frameworks, and paying particular attention to the needs of developing countries, including for capacity building. Paragraph 47 of the Rio+20 outcome document, The Future We Want

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... projects represent a good pilot sample of the different opportunities that exist out there." EUAs are agreements between a building owner, local council and financier to finance environmental retrofitting projects. Under the terms, the building owner ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Oceans Asset Management is an international equities fund manager that uses concentrated, non-index relative approaches to building portfolios of listed global equities. The company has integrated environmental, social and corporate governance analysis ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Global Compact in 2011, a 54% increase over 2010 growth figures, but an annual survey showed that while signatories are building environmental and social factors into strategies and policies, there are wide gaps in translating that into operational action. ...