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Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... opportunities. "It's important that companies are identifying [opportunities], doing their financial analysis, prioritising them, building them into the re-investment cycle, but I don't think we can expect companies to talk about what they're going to ...

Commonwealth Bank reports increased customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Commonwealth Bank of Australia reported an increase in retail customer satisfaction of 79%, a 4% jump from last year, as well as increases in gender diversity and community program funding in its most recent sustainability report. Commonwealth Bank ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... country and the region will develop. Chi Woo The paper outlines five steps for Australia: "strengthening our economy; building our capabilities; connecting to growing markets; ensuring sustainable security; and nurturing deeper and broader relationships," ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... invest in supply chain resilience. "The initiative is a $3.25 million commitment to sustainable farming projects and building leadership capacity in agriculture, improving water use and supporting the development of a water footprint tool for the horticulture ...

Local Government Super wins property sustainability award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... owners and managers retrofit their buildings in the future," said LGS CEO Peter Lambert in a media statement. "These building upgrades significantly reduce energy consumption across our property portfolio, lowering running costs and improving the investment ...

SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... that the work they are doing to build the pipeline of potential future projects is part of the capacity- and network-building process, Rickards noted. SEFA is targeting market-like returns, Rickards said. "What we're about here is about releasing additional ...

Low Carbon Australia finances second Wagga Wagga project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia will finance a second energy upgrade project with the city of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales- the installation of a cogeneration unit at the city's aquatic centre. The AU$780,000 upgrade project at the Wagga Wagga Oasis Aquatic ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... changeable through time - witness the shift in feed-in tariff arrangements for solar power, the insulation program, the Green Building Fund, and other grant programs which are intermittent, and which have rounds which open and shut. This has contributed ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... greenhouse gas emission intensity by 2014, and will construct all new retirement living homes with a 5% improvement on building code energy efficiency performance requirements. "The risks associated with our changing climate affect the way our organisation ...

NAB funds second Environmental Upgrade Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Melbourne Fund The agreement will result in financing for the AU$720,000 upgrade to heating, cooling and lighting and a new building management system for the 15-storey commercial office block at 470 Collins Street in the Melbourne CBD. The upgrade is ...