1. AGL partners with Lend Lease on solar push
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... thin film solar photovoltaic panels to residential households.   AGL’s general marketing manager David Hamilton said: “Australia’s solar market has had an unprecedented surge over the last yea...

2. AGL partners with Lend Lease on solar push
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...Solar’s thin film solar photovoltaic to residential households.   AGL’s general marketing manager David Hamilton said: “Australia’s solar market has had an unprecedented surge over the last yea...

3. Dow Jones, SAM deepen partnership
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Sustainable investment boutique SAM and index provider Dow Jones Indexes said they plan to deepen their 11-year-old collaboration, with Dow Jones taking over from STOXX as the partner for the SAM Euro

4. Corporate responsibility through voluntary measures
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.... “All vendors and agents have to comply and we can audit their facilities too.” For Cbus CEO David Atkin, common practices amongst investment and asset managers is crucial for ESG practice...

5. Fitting the green building blocks together
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It's not all plain sailing in the push for sustainability in Australia's building sector, Ethical Investor learns at the recent Optimising Sustainability Performance forum.Australia faces many sustain

6. Strategy shift set to swell revenue
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...the 22 cents share price past its early 2008 25 cents issue price. What the market also wants, says David Shield of small-cap investor Atom Funds Management, is further evidence of DiCOM’s ‘defen...

7. Grassroots unite against greenhouse gases
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...sed to develop local renewable energy projects in Europe for many years, Future Energy managing director David Shapero says. “It’s an amazing story. It has been done overseas and now it will be ...

8. David Jones’ governance reputation intact despite CEO dismissal
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Governance analysts mostly applauded David Jones Limited’s (ASX: DJS) handling of disgraced former CEO David McInnes’ departure, agreeing that while the best-governed companies cannot legislate a

9. Cleantech News Roundup
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...energy company AREVA. Reports had surfaced before Christmas that the company founded by Australian Dr David Mills was up for sale, unable to raise capital in a rapidly consolidating sector. Ausra...

10. Cleantech News Roundup
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...energy company AREVA. Reports had surfaced before Christmas that the company founded by Australian Dr David Mills was up for sale, unable to raise capital in a rapidly consolidating sector. Ausra...

11. Hands off our ideas, international co-op chief warns big business
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...nomies that are diversifying their corporate structures.   In the UK, Conservative Party leader David Cameron has called for a public sector of co-operatives, where nurses, teachers and other...

12. Solar goes nuclear
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...ny AREVA.    Reports had surfaced before Christmas that the company founded by Australian Dr David Mills was up for sale, unable to raise capital in a rapidly consolidating sector. Austral...

13. Solar goes nuclear
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...ergy company AREVA. Reports had surfaced before Christmas that the company founded by Australian Dr David Mills was up for sale.   The reports said the company was unable to raise capital ...

14. Gunns vows to use 100 per cent plantation timber in Bell Bay pulp mill
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...-up.” That meets a condition set by a possible Swedish investor, Sodra. The Tasmanian Premier, David Bartlett, challenged environmentalists and the Greens to accept Gunns' proposed pulp mill...

15. HESTA wins Super Fund of the Year
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...hoto: Hesta's Rob Fowler receives award from Caroline Noller of GPT, the sposnor of the award. Source: David Crosling                  ...

16. Dyesol: a bright spot in the renewable energy sector
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...ard Henfrey, director - people and strategy at Blackmores, the sponsor of the award CEO Source David Crosling       ...

17. Stockland's engaging approach to sustainability
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Ervin Graf founded Stockland in 1952 wanting to "not merely achieve growth and profits but to make a worthwhile contribution to thedevelopment of our cities and great country". Today the winner of the

18. Stockland and Dyesol: sustainable companies of the year
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...tegy to improve customer service and brand engagement. Corporate Governance (sponsored by Regnan): David Jones for its outstanding corporate governance structures and demonstration of unequivoca...

19. Anti-uranium protestors pressure BHP board at AGM
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...e, animals and the environment for generations.   Australian Conservation Foundation campaigner David Noonan says he questioned BHP’s board of directors about the company’s corporate social r...

20. ANZ launches fee-free not-for-profit banking
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...re specialist banking services for small business. ANZ group managing director, commercial banking, David Hisco said the package has been created to meet the unique needs of not-for-profit commun...

21. ANZ launches new corporate responsibility framework
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ANZ launched a new corporate responsibility strategy, identifying five priorities: education and employment for disadvantaged communities; rural development; financial capability; responsible practice

22. GPT Group global real estate leader in DJSI
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The GPT Group, with a property portfolio of Australian real estate in the retail, office and industrial/business park assets was announced last month as the global leader for the real estate

23. UniQuest joins new climate change alliance
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...k of expertise and resources, forming the alliance was a natural progression, UniQuest managing director David Henderson said. “With the impacts of carbon emissions, trading and sustainability st...

24. AGL re-enters, Dexus added to DJSI World index; Bluescope ejected
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... Coca Cola Amatil and Sonic Healthcare were added to the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index and David Jones, Metcash and One Steel were removed. AGL had been removed from the index at the pre...

25. Offshore wind farms could power 37 million homes by 2020
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...and other constraints have tempered the market, there is clearly a huge business opportunity here," says David Gault, renewables manager at ODS-Petrodata. "These are big industrial projects, and it...

26. Offshore wind farms could power 37 million homes by 2020
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...and other constraints have tempered the market, there is clearly a huge business opportunity here," says David Gault, renewables manager at ODS-Petrodata. "These are big industrial projects, and it...

27. The role of insurers in climate change adaptation
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...it makes communities less dependent on government bailouts following a  disaster.   David Smith is chief executive of Zurich Financial Services Australia ...

28. Infrastrucure funds develop a climate response
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Infrastructure funds are being urged to manage the climate change risks that wholesale investors see as a potential threat to long-term values.Infrastructure managers have big budgets for long-term an

29. Building in climate's path
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...ne significant catastrophic event every two or three years in Australia, but now it’s once a year,” says David Smith, chief executive of insurance group Zurich Australia. Industry statistics sho...

30. Al Gore condemns institutional investors' short-termism
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...to George W. Bush and set up Generation Investment Management in 2004 with former Goldman Sachs CEO David Blood, thinks there is a very simple solution. "One thing I've noticed is frequently...

31. News.com.au launches 2009 Green Awards
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David Higgins, editor of News Corp’s (ASX: NWS) news.com.au, announced the launch of the 2009 Green Awards on 16 June. “The awards recognise and celebrate everyday Australians tackling the environm

32. Airplay for the environment
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...nvironmental 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 T...

33. Cbus nominates CEO for UNPRI board
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Superannuation fund Cbus said it has nominated CEO David Atkin to stand for election to the board of the Principles for Responsible Investment.   Cbus was one of the early Australian signatorie

34. A fund with Impax
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A fund that invests in small to medium-sized, listed, pure-play environmental companies. BNP Paribas Investment Partners’ latest offering is based on a successful London-based investment fund run by I

35. A fund with Impax
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A fund that invests in small to medium-sized, listed, pure-play environmental companies. BNP Paribas Investment Partners’ latest offering is based on a successful London-based investment fund run by I

36. Responsible investment in unprecedented times
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...Returning to first principles Early this month, Al Gore’s partner in Generation Investment Management, David Blood, addressed an audience of investment professionals on the reasons business and inve...

37. RI in unprecedented times
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...Returning to first principles Early this month, Al Gore’s partner in Generation Investment Management, David Blood, addressed an audience of investment professionals on the reasons business and inve...

38. Telstra, WWF team up on sustainability report
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...o the company for each alternative. Telstra Enterprise & Government Group managing director, David Thodey - now the new CEO of Telstra - said sustainability practices were now a critical b...

39. Telstra, WWF team up on sustainability report
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...s to the company for each alternative. Telstra Enterprise & Government Group managing director, David Thodey - now the new CEO of Telstra - said sustainability practices were now a critical b...

40. BNP Impax fund shoots higher
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BNP Paribas Impax Enviromental Markets Trust - profiled in the current edition of Ethical Investor #85 (MayJune) - was up a net 13.33 per cent in April, well ahead of the MSCI, BNP said in its latest

41. BNP Impax fund shoots higher
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BNP Paribas Impax Enviromental Markets Trust was up a net 13.33 per cent in April, well ahead of the MSCI, BNP said in its latest investment report.    BNP Paribas Investment’s latest offe

42. Cities of Green
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...ted future, where supply or delivery stages are reduced.         David Flynn from the Design Institute of Australia says there must also be a major change in th...

43. Finland’s Seligson signs license for first index fund on DJSI Asia Pacific
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SAM and Dow Jones Indexes said that Finnish fund manager Seligson & Co signed a license for the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index (DJSI), the first index fund worldwide to track this new

44. Hot under foot
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...cal impacts of climate change. Naturally some industries are more exposed than others. For example, David Higgins in a 2007 UTS research paper Placing commercial property in the Australian capita...

45. BT Institutional International Sustainability Share Fund
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Start Date: January 2001 Product Size ($): 15 

46. Vanguard Sustainability Leaders International Shares Fund
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Start Date: 27/09/2001 Product Size ($): 179 

47. SAM announces new AuSSI components; Great Southern ejected
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SAM announced the results of the annual review for the Australian SAM Sustainability Index (AuSSI), which saw timber giant Great Southern ejected after it entered the index just a year earlier. Effect

48. DJSI licensed for US-based mutual fund
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Dow Jones Indexes and SAM said that the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) has been licensed to The Dreyfus Corporation to serve as the stock selection pool for the firm’s first-ever global s

49. David Macri joins Australian Ethical from Macquarie
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Australian Ethical has appointed David Macri to its equities team to focus on small caps. Based in Australian Ethical’s Sydney office, Macri will work closely with Andy Gracey, portfolio manager f

50. ESG investing in emerging markets
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...al - to research their sustainability performance.   This conventional view was overturned when David Gait, the Edinburgh-based head of emerging markets for Colonial First State Global Asset ...