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Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... already existing frameworks, and paying particular attention to the needs of developing countries, including for capacity building. Paragraph 47 of the Rio+20 outcome document, The Future We Want

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... projects represent a good pilot sample of the different opportunities that exist out there." EUAs are agreements between a building owner, local council and financier to finance environmental retrofitting projects. Under the terms, the building owner ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Oceans Asset Management is an international equities fund manager that uses concentrated, non-index relative approaches to building portfolios of listed global equities. The company has integrated environmental, social and corporate governance analysis ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Global Compact in 2011, a 54% increase over 2010 growth figures, but an annual survey showed that while signatories are building environmental and social factors into strategies and policies, there are wide gaps in translating that into operational action. ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... noted that microfinance programs match lending with mentoring, and said that partnering with banks allows for capacity building in both directions. "There is an element of capacity building for Indigenous organisation around financial literacy and it ...

Report: US$174bn global market for climate-themed bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
There is USD$174bn worth of climate-themed bonds outstanding today, covering sectors including energy, building and industry, climate finance, water, waste and pollution controls, agriculture and forestry, according to a report by the Climate Bonds ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $1.6m Ipswich building upgrade

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia has helped finance the $1.6m upgrade of a 7,000 square metre office and retail building in Ipswich, Queensland. The redevelopment of Trident's Limestone Street Centre featured upgrades to lighting, air-conditioning and a building ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... company with interests in shares, coal mining, distribution and retail of pharmaceutical products and manufacture of building products. An investor in SOL for almost 20 years, Perpetual has been raising corporate governance concerns with the company ...

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
While 80% of superannuation funds have told research firm SuperRatings that they believe they have a responsibility to operate sustainably, only 20-30% of those respondents measure and report energy, waste and water usage regularly. In their annual ...

bankmecu, Foresters Community Finance partner on loan scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... national community banking manager at bankmecu. "Foresters have built up a really strong reputation in the community asset building space, assisting community organisations to build their expertise so they can better use their financial resources to ...