 The UK’s Carbon Trust launched its Carbon Reduction Label at Ethical Investor’s Green Marketing Forum in Sydney today. The label allows businesses that independently verify the carbon footprints of their products to communicate their carbon reduction commitment to their customers through an easy-to-understand label. Companies that adopt the label must commit to reducing their carbon footprint every two years.
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Brisbane-based geothermal energy developer Geodynamics is investigating the possibility of building a communications and storage data centre alongside its commercial demonstration plant in the Cooper Basin in South Australia’s far north. The ‘hot rocks’ developer has engaged Springfield-based IT consultancy Strategic Directions Group to conduct a feasibility study into supplying electricity to co-located customers.
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Network Ten's Making Your Mark weekend-long programming campaign starts today - World Environmental Day - to raise awareness of climate change and other environmental issues. Over the long weekend popular shows including Neighbours, 9am with David and Kim, Video Hits, MasterChef Australia, TEN News at Five, Ready Steady Cook, Toasted TV, Good News Week and The Simpsons will carry environmental messages and provide viewers with information and advice on caring for the environment.
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Geothermal energy is expected to provide about 7 per cent of Australia’s baseload power by 2030, the United Nations Environment Progamme said in its latest assessment of the world’s renewable energy markets. Wind will also benefit from Australia's new push for sustainable energy, UNEP said, and is expected to provide most of the 20 per cent renewable energy by 2020 target.
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Since 2006 investors have flocked to sign the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) but now find themselves in the firing line for ‘greenwashing’, as many fail to fulfill their promise to fully integrate and report progress on environmental, social and governance factors. Most Australia-based UNPRI signatory super funds contacted by Ethical Investor admit there is still much work to be done to fully integrate ESG into its investment analysis and decision-making.
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Australian trust law makes pension fund trustees’ primary obligation crystal clear: to maximise returns and minimise risk in the best financial interests of their members. This does not and should not exclude the consideration of environmental, social and governance, or ethical issues. |
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The core function of any pension system is to safeguard and grow retirement savings on behalf of individual workers and retirees. Which begs the sometimes complex question: does the running of a super fund have a social responsibility as well as a financial one?
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While the need for extra financial analysis – that based on considering environmental, social and governance factors – has perhaps never been greater, spending on resources to meet the need is largely counted as discretionary.
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If institutional investors anywhere in the world are going to act now to protect their clients’ long-term risk, it will be here. Today’s free-market capitalism is pretty monocultural. But Australia is blessed with four features that give cause for optimism.
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