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Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... perspective, local factors such as poorer education systems can hamper the recruitment process. As such, companies such as Total Gabon, which "recently announced a partnership with the government of Gabon to create a petroleum technical skills school ...

Low Carbon Australia certifies water recycling plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... A Recycled Water Plant's operations, said Meg McDonald, Low Carbon Australia CEO. "The plant has been able to reduce its total carbon footprint by just under 75% through cogeneration. It has then purchased offsets approved under the Australian government's ...

Santos identifies 24 material sustainability indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... stakeholder-specific information in a reliable and timely manner. In terms of employee materiality, Santos achieved a safety total recordable case frequency rate(TRCFR) of 3.3 against a target of less than 3.5, and reviewed its code of conduct and revised ...

Japanese pension plan selects MSCI ESG index as benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... for Municipal Personnel, which has more than JPY 8tr in assets under management, has set a target range of 7-17% of the total AUM for investment in domestic equities, and part of this allocation will be used for the ESG mandate. The National Federation ...

Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... revenue-generating opportunities for entities in support of the Carbon Farming Futures program. The government has allocated a total of AU$429m over six years to fund research, development and demonstration of emissions reductions technologies, according ...

KPMG: agribusiness needs national food policy framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... production for 2010/2011 representing AU$49.3bn, gross value forestry and fisheries for 2010/2011 representing AU3.9bn and the total value of exports of both categories equalling AU$36.2bn. But there is a lack of investment by all stakeholders in research ...

IGCC working group engages on green finance design, function

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... can achieve leverage of four times, there will be an additional AU$40bn of private sector investment available - i.e. a total of AU$50bn," Major said. "This begs the question whether the clean energy investment market in Australia can sustain this level ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... because using the TIP framework, Mercer estimates that climate policy risk contributes 10% to an investment portfolio's total risk budget, compared with 1% for technology risk, and 12% for credit risk premium. Equity risk premium is still the largest ...

Westfield GHG emissions decrease, energy efficiency increase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... community engagement and injury rates as some of their high priority indicators over the 2010 calendar year. During 2010, total global GHG emissions across all scopes were 689,497 metric tonnes CO2-equivalents (t CO2e) - 30,975 t CO2e direct emissions ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... capital raising. "You can work it out from if you're lucky from the accounts afterwards," Lawrence said. "From 2008-2010 the total cut of the AU$100bn raised was AU$2bn. Australian retirement savings made a material contribution to repairing the balance ...