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GBCA: Green Star buildings more efficient, less wasteful

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... produce around one third the greenhouse gas emissions and use a third of the electricity consumed by the average Australian building, according to research from the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). GBCA's report, The Value of Green Star: A ...

IIRC CEO favours market-led adoption of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... business. If all we do is create another report, we will have failed." Druckman's visit to the country is also geared towards building support for IR from the G20 and its business advisory forum, the B20. Australia will take the on the G20 presidency ...

Fund managers assess retailers' risks in Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... and conditions, experts say they can collaborate through multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement, developed by an alliance of NGOs encouraging international companies to sign. Factories like Rana Plaza ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... improve their commitment to sustainability. You are also seeing a good return on investment for those outlays - making building more energy and water efficient is a good business case." The index was developed to provide investors using the Emerald Wrap ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... investment process and wider business. Oulton said CFSGAM's Global Responsible Investment Strategy had three components - building on previous efforts, improving the quality of the investment process to include a better sense of the impact of ESG factors ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... all achieve the same outcome - to drive down the weighted average cost of capital that participants face when they're building or financing new projects, because to make the transition as efficient as possible, it's about the overall cost of capital ...

GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... in the Netherlands, focused on identifying sustainability best of real estate assets. He holds masters degrees both in building engineering and real estate, is Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and is a LEED Green Associate. ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Building the impact investment sector will require coordinated action to grow what is currently a nascent market, a conclusion that has led interested organisations in the financial services sector to set up a financial services forum to address this. ...

Westpac focuses on demographics, environment in strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Westpac Group has focused on three priority areas in its 2013-2017 sustainability strategy -responding to shifts in demographic and cultural change, creating economic solutions to environmental challenges, and helping customers achieve sustainable financial ...

NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... reconciliation action plan (RAP) outlining their approaches to employing Indigenous Australians, addressing financial exclusion, building partnerships with indigenous organisations and traditional owners with an eye to creating commercial opportunities ...