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Stewart Investors backs research on packaging sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
Stewart Investors has commissioned research from the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney that has led to the development of a packaging sustainability performance framework. David Gait, managing partner, Stewart ...

Meat and fish producers not managing ESG risks: FAIRR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
The world's biggest meat and fish companies are not managing critical business risks such as greenhouse gas emissions and antibiotics risk, with three Australian companies scoring medium or high risk, according to the FAIRR Protein Producers Index. ...

Pollinate Energy merges with US-based Empower Generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
Pollinate Energy, a social enterprise that provides affordable solar lighting to people in India's urban slums, is merging with U.S. based Empower Generation, creating a combined social enterprise that will operate in India and Nepal. Women Entrepreneurs ...

Cement companies need to "more than double" emissions reductions: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... tightening building regulations could drive change up the chain." CDP noted that the best performing companies were located in India, "thanks to reducing their carbon footprint during the cement making process, in part due to better access to alternative ...

The Fred Hollows Foundation invests in eye care centre social enterprise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... eye care centre is set to open in Vietnam this year. Further centres are planned for a range of other countries including India, Indonesia and China. "We've been examining options for a little while to tap into the impact investing market, and leverage ...

Increasing financial inclusion could yield increasing revenue to banks: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... measures. Not only have governments and regulators started to take initiatives here, their technology has come forward, such as India with biometric identify systems. Several other countries are taking advantage in terms of identify and biometric identify ...

High to severe ESG incidents affect market capitalisation: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... associate, thematic research, Sustainalytics, in written comment to The Sustainability Report. "Only the US, the UK and India experienced more incidents than Australia... Normalizing for country size (GDP), Australia is the sixth most incident prone ...

Climate-aligned bond universe jumps to US$895 billion: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... issuers in descending order are Supranationals, USA, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Canada, Australia, India and Brazil, while New York City is amongst the largest sub-sovereign bond issuers in the U.S. Globally, development banks ...

WA ranks 8th globally in National Resource Governance Institute assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... we assessed the largest resource-producing region (the Gulf of Mexico, Alberta and Western Australia, respectively). For India, we evaluated the federally-managed gas sector."

Green Bond issuance up 50% on first half of 2016: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... the moment- a fillip to the market this year. Corporates and banks in Europe have gone up, you have increased issuance in India. We have a little bit of issuance out of Mexico, both local and national. It's really everywhere."