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[caption id="attachment_3044" align="alignright" width="223"]http://www.geca.org.au http://www.geca.org.au[/caption] GECA (Good Environmental Choice Australia) has announced progress is being made in getting more GECA standards recognised by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). In October the GBCA announced its intention to expand an existing Assessment Framework, enabling more GECA standards to be.
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pitt&sherry, in conjunction with Swinburne University, is working with key stakeholders from Australia’s building industry to deliver recommendations for the National Energy Efficient Building Project (NEEBP). Energy used in buildings accounts for approximately 20 per cent of Australia’s energy related greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Australian Building Codes Board. As a result, the.
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New polling results have been released in Sydney today at the annual Responsible Investment Conference, organised by peak industry group the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). According to the national poll, most Australians (54%) would rather invest in a responsible super fund than a super fund which only considers maximising financial returns (46%). “This demonstrates the enormous.
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[caption id="attachment_2764" align="alignright" width="231"]http://www.accenture.com/microsites/ungc-ceo-study/Pages/home.aspx http://www.accenture.com/microsites/ungc-ceo-study/Pages/home.aspx[/caption] September 20, 2013: More than two thirds of chief executives – 67 percent – believe that business is not doing enough to address global sustainability challenges, according to The United Nations Global Compact CEO Study on Sustainability produced with Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Amid.
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By Carol A Adams, Monash University Investors are increasingly interested in how companies manage non-financial — environmental and social — risks. And there is still substantial room for improvement. The recent Sustainability Reporting: Practices, Performance and Potential report compared the top 40 companies by size in Australia, Hong Kong and the UK, and found.
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