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Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... food demand, we're going to have to grow the capacity. Some of that is protection of food growing areas, which have competition from mining and urbanisation as well." Lauber Patterson points to other areas of the Clean Energy Future legislative package ...

Foresters finances Eating Disorders Victoria service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Finance was a decision driven by the fact that there have been cuts in funding from state government and by increasing competition for philanthropic funding, said Jennifer Beveridge, EDV CEO. "The social enterprise money was really a source of funds ...

Retail supply chain policies pose sustainability challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Capital. Australian retailers have been hit by a number of prevailing trends, including weak consumption, increased competition from online and overseas retailers, and exogenous pressures such as 2011's sharp increase in the cotton price. As a result ...

Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... how are they going to be assessed and attributed in a company's books. The reason for that is that the [ Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ] ACCC has a hell of a lot of additional funding to look at price gouging. They have come out and ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... harder than they'd realise." Christensen cites factors such as a dearth of skilled staff in local subsidiaries and competition for workers from national oil companies. From the skilled local staff perspective, local factors such as poorer education systems ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... analysed the impacts of free allowances and border carbon adjustments (BCAs) to ameliorate some of the impacts from competition and carbon leakage. The report notes that by allocating free allowances, a government removes a large proportion of costs ...