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Miners, stakeholders agree to actions in Upper Hunter Valley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Miners and community stakeholders in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales have agreed to a list of actions to address the impacts of coal mining on a range of issues from mine rehabilitation to water assessments, long term health impacts to local ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... side as well," said Ian Woods, AMP Capital Investors' head of sustainable funds. "When talking to companies, they have different approaches to supply chain issues. With the Australian dollar being so high, the issue of outsourcing to Asia, particularly ...

GRI release reporting standards for construction and real estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... assist organizations with a framework for sustainability reporting. GRI offers several versions of the guidelines for different sectors, including financial services, mining and metals, electric utilities and airports. CRESS is the seventh sector to ...

Integrated reporting discussion paper released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... creating a framework for reporting that is better able to accommodate complexity and, in so doing, brings together the different strands of reporting into a coherent, integrated whole," the paper said. "All of the organizations referred to above are ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... on well accepted technologies and regulatory and policy regimes, and in comparison, renewable energy investments have different risk profiles. "I think [institutional investors] do expressly compare it to other types of infrastructure investments," said ...

Carbon price an "entry point" for sustainability discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... difficult to unscramble the egg," Magner said. "This will then mean that financial professionals will have to scramble in a different way to set up systems around carbon accounting. The packages are either stand-alone carbon management pieces or that ...

Investors integrating ESG into decisions have "an edge"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... factor in the consideration of human capital management is the fact that there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach - different industry sectors require different approaches. "Human capital management basically means how organisations manage the labour," ...

Companies increasing remuneration report transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... companies have been more forthcoming in choosing to engage with shareholders on remuneration and voting. "We've seen two different things happen," said Ian Woods, AMP Capital Investors' head of sustainable funds. "One is we've seen companies ringing ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... something of an impediment. I think we will see the emergence of aggregators who will combine a number of projects across different land holdings so as to manage them as part of a larger carbon sequestration or abatement pool, which is a sensible economic ...

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
James Thier, a founding director of Australian Ethical Investment, has retired from the company as of last week. Australian Ethical is a fund manager with AU$650m in assets under management, specialising in ethical and sustainable investment since its ...