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ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the greatest single obstacle to its success, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR)'s annual review. The ACCSR's The State of CSR 2012/2013 surveyed 160 people ...

Monash University selected as sustainable development hub

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... strategies." Monash's SDSN program is supported by the Harold Mitchell Foundation, the National Australia Bank and the Australian federal government. University of Siena in Italy has also been selected as a regional SDSN centre and will focus on the ...

Low Carbon Australia and CEFC to merge for 2013 launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... markets and climate change practice. He is also an adjunct professor of climate change law at the Australian National University. Swan also appointed Paul Binsted to fill the final position on the CEFC board. Binsted has extensive experience in investment ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... work in conjunction with other accounting standards and frameworks, including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Australian state and national regulatory standards and the Australian Water Accounting Standard (AWAS), McCombe said. The Water Accounting ...

ClimateWorks Australia name Hill, Ridout to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability at the US Studies Centre and chancellor of the University of Adelaide. He is a former chairman of the Australian Carbon Trust and served as federal minister for the environment from 1996 to 2002. He was a Liberal senator from 1981 to 2006 ...

Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... related to water, said Professor Jayne Godfrey, Dean of the College of Business and Economics at the Australian National University and co-editor of the book. "If there are elements of water risk at, for example, a mining company or a pulp and paper ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... organizational design around sustainable innovation, yielding some breakthrough products and business models. " Thus, for Australian companies that are entering an era of carbon constraints through the forthcoming carbon pricing regime, the biggest challenges ...

Carbon Farming Initiative grants for biochar research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... increase soil carbon in native woody bioenergy crops to assist land managers in how and when to use biochar. The South Australian No Till Farmers Association was granted nearly AU$300,000 to demonstrate how degraded dairy pastures in the Lower Murray ...

Government grants $1.9m for geothermal exploration study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... University of Sydney to develop machine learning algorithms, and the Schools of Earth Science at the Australian National University, University of Melbourne and University of Adelaide to apply these methods to the problem of geothermal target characterisation ...

Ken Henry to speak at ACCSR annual conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry will give a keynote address at the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR)'s fifth annual conference on the state of corporate social responsible in Australia. Henry, who is also a non-executive ...