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Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... The standard also addresses traceability of funds and types of bonds than can be certified. Eligibility criteria for different types of investment be made available by the end of 2012. According to Kirsten Spalding at the Ceres Investor Network for Climate ...

Government launches coal mining abatement package

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The Australian government has launched a $70m Coal Mining Abatement Technology Support Package, aimed at developing technologies and processes to aid the coal industry. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson The package provides funding for three areas ...

Foresters launches Social Investment Australia lending fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... them grow their business and increase the impact of their work in their communities. "The social enterprise market is different from the non-profit market," Wheeler said. "Some social enterprises will have a parent that is a non-profit, but the purpose ...

Accountancy profession a driver of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... graduates with skills to seek a variety of perspectives. "It's more essential [in university] to start exposing students to different disciplines and different ways of thinking," said Tingey-Holyoak. "In Germany, in their first year of degrees and post ...

Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Accountants in Australia, and by the Australian Research Council. "One purpose of the book is to recognise that there are different systems that are called water accounting," Godfrey said. "They may or may not have benefits, depending on the differing ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... of patchy confidence in the commercial property market. But these three 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 ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... commercial way. A lot of how we think about this is risk management, rather than the opportunity. We do look at a range of different technologies and a range of different industries and we look at companies that have benefited from changes in terms of ...

GRI Focal Point's local angle to sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Victoria Whitaker, network manager, Focal Point Australia, Global Reporting Initiative. "Globally, we have identified three different ways of implementing this - one is to regulate it, such as to mandate it as part of the Corporations Act," Whitaker ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... ratings. The mandate commenced in mid-March. The sovereign ESG research covers approximately 90 countries across 70 different E, S and G indicators, which permits LGS to discover which countries are resilient to ESG macro themes including financial market ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... local Aboriginal community. It's given a much broader reach to our engagement, because the issues in the Cape are much different than the issues in Redfern." Community engagement through partnerships plays into one of the other big themes common to reconciliation ...