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Impax Asset Management analyses environmental impact of portfolio

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... recently published its Environmental Impact Methodology, outlining their approach to measure the positive environmental impacts attributable to their Cap Global Specialists Strategy. This strategy invests in companies providing solutions for environmental ...

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... Community Sector Banking would be one of those. We've seen other products that effectively offset their environmental impacts, like from Bank Australia. Others offer other green lending products such as greener home loans. What we're seeing is banks ...

ARENA provides $9.9 million funding to New Gullan Range Wind Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... connection, approvals and site development costs by co-locating wind and solar plants, whilst also reducing environmental impacts." The New Gullan Range Wind Farm (NGRWF) estimates that co-location savings for the solar farm could be as high as AU$6 ...

Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... while the impact of governance issues can be related to bond performance, it is harder to relate social and environmental impacts to bond performance, said Ian Woods, head of ESG investment research at AMP Capital. "When we've been looking at integration ...

Corporates implementing social return on investment frameworks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... nearly again to asses it." ACCSR has developed measurement frameworks to assist clients to measure social and environmental impacts and outcomes both of community investment programs and of overall business activities and strategies. "One thing is that ...

GRESB launches Health and Well-being Module

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... GRESB. "GRESB's vision is to ultimately create better places for people and communities - places that reduce environmental impacts, improve social practices and set high standards for corporate governance - in profitable ways that make good business ...

GRI, CDP publish updated reporting guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... division director. "This highlights the increasing importance companies are placing on their reporting of these environmental impacts, and the growing demand for guidance in these areas." Separately, GRI has also released The Next Era of Corporate Disclosure ...

Engaging corporate boards key to embedding sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... short-term performance over long term sustainability of the corporation, with concomitant negative social and environmental impacts. "Essential to this is understanding what fiduciary duty actually is," she said. "Careful international legal analysis ...

CDP Names Climate A List in 2015 report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... of innovative investor products such as CDP's sector research, launched this year, which directly links environmental impacts to the bottom line," CDP said in the report. "Some investors are taking the next logical step, and are working to shrink their ...

Telstra publishes 2015 Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... their environmental performance and using our products and services to assist our customers to manage their environmental impacts." The company noted they purchased AU$6.8 billion in goods and services in FY 2105 from 4,800 suppliers in Australia and ...