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| | | Calculating the value of the ecosystem in which a company operates can not only provide measures of the company's dependency on services such as water, land, biomass and climate control, but also offers information for strategic consideration of risk ... |
| | | | ... carbon. Kiely also pointed to waterponding as well as being beneficial to farmers. Waterponding "is the creation of low earth banks to capture water on scalded claypans in the semi-arid rangelands," according to the department. "A low earth bank is built ... |
| | | | ... respondents and 85% of JSE 100 companies that report exposure to similar risks. "Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth, and the water impacts of climate change are likely to be more severe than other countries," said James Day, CDP's director ... |
| | | | ... will be launched at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). "In the 20 years since the Earth Summit, sustainable investment and finance has moved from the margins to the mainstream," said Penny Shepherd, UKSIF chief ... |
| | | | ... machine learning in conjunction with other institutions and companies to develop data to locate geothermal sources beneath the Earth's surface. Geothermal energy is generated from intense heat generated by rocks located kilometres underground. It is ... |
| | | | A double-counting of proxy votes by a custodial shareholder that led to an initial, apparent vote of 26.4% against the remuneration report of heavy earthmoving equipment solution provider Emeco highlights flaws in the proxy voting system. Because of ... |
| | | | Telecommunications provider Optus said responsible marketing, customer service and safety, driving innovation and uptake of technology and building social inclusion were all material issues to their corporate responsibility (CR) goal. Optus, a subsidiary ... |
| | | | ... essential services for everyone," according to the declaration. The declaration will be officially launched at the Rio +20 Earth Summit in June 2012, and "calls upon the private and public sectors to work together to create the conditions necessary to ... |
| | | | A shortage in skilled labour in a number of Australian industry sectors means that companies' human capital management (HCM) programmes are an important component in risk management, according to a report by Regnan Governance Research. Skills shortage ... |
| | | | Sustainability and major sovereign default are two key themes investors need to be aware of, according to Tim Hodgson, senior investment consultant and head of Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Group. "Sustainability is not a problem for the next three ... |
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