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Local property companies continue GRESB outperformance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... their score last year, which was 64. Overall, 637 listed property companies and private equity real estate funds submitted data to GRESB, covering 56,00 buildings with an aggregate value of USD$2.1 trillion, GRESB reported. While overall performance ...

NY's EIC on residential, commercial property energy upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... recapitalise "as needed", Bregman said. "Access to capital is not a limiting factor," he said. EIC does not have adequate data to predict future uptake of their clean energy programme, but Bregman notes that their pilot community in Bedford has exceeded ...

Carbon co-benefits valued as additional $664 per tonne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... partnership with the International Carbon Reduction and Offsetting Alliance (ICROA). The research was split into two approaches - data was collected from 59 offset projects around the world, and social and economic benefits were quantified and then monitised ...

MSCI launches ESG CarbonMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... and managers will need tools designed to measure exposure to carbon risk in their portfolios, including robust quantitative data on companies' fossil fuel reserves holdings and carbon emissions," said Remy Briand, managing director and head of ESG research ...

Sustainalytics hires Gary Hewitt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
Sustainalytics has hired Gary Hewitt to lead the development of expanded corporate governance research and data products. Hewitt is former head of governance research at GMI Ratings. He previously led a research team at Watson Wyatt (now Towers Watson) ...

SVA: Newpin social benefit bond returns 7.5% in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... maintenance of existing centres, and the planned expansion of six more centres in New South Wales. "Based on the first year's data - which is one year in a seven year program - the first year's performance is meeting expectations," said Ian Learmonth ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... leadership, specifically around Asian cultural capability," said Lisa Annese, DCA's CEO. "I think we knew it, but now we have the data." The report cites four main barriers preventing people of Asian cultural background from ascending in Australian companies ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Currently, given the relatively short timescale of the formal social investment/social enterprise movement, there is not enough data to define general modalities of success, but Addarii pointed to several case studies of what is working, and particularly ...

Net Balance: sustainability assurance increase in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
A total of 43 ASX200 companies assured their sustainability data in 2013, according to research from Net Balance that also finds an emerging trend of companies assuring human rights disclosures in addition to environmental data. This is Net Balance's ...

PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... because agriculture supply chains are complex, water risks are localised and dispersed, and there is a limited availability of data. "The research found a strong correlation between individual company revenue and estimated water consumption in water ...