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Aviva matches green rebates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... laundries and bathrooms for use on the garden. As a result, Holmes received a $500 Victorian state government water conservation rebate and an extra $300 rebate from Aviva. He said the decision to install the grey water system was driven by environmental ...

Future Fund to adopt ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... part of its investment strategies in 2008. The government-backed $59.6 billion fund was highlighted by Australian Conservation Foundation in its latest report as not appearing to have made "any commitment to consider environmental, social and good governance ...

Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... nonetheless increased albeit it is still at overall low levels. Even though households bare the political brunt of water conservation efforts, they accounted for only 11 per cent of the total water consumed in Australia in 2004-05, compared with agriculture ...

Awash with water funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
... countries. The US alone requires A$1.25 trillion over the next 20 years, they said in a recent report. "A recent report by conservation organisation the WWF reveals people in wealthy countries use 10 times more water than those in poor ones, and water ...

Portfolio Partners offsets co2 with tree-planting program

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... limiting our own impact on the environment. We have opted for tree plantation because it creates jobs and has sound conservation benefits, in addition to converting harmful greenhouse gases to oxygen." The trees chosen will be planted on bare agricultural ...

NSW Govt to launch biodiversity fund

... preserving their land. "We're looking at a system that rewards land owners who are actively managing their site for conservation. By entering the biobanking program, they are able to generate the credits that they can then sell to cover their costs," ...

Go green, go dim

... Hour", where the companies agreed to shut their lights off for an hour from 7.30pm. The project is the brainchild of conservation group WWF (formerly World Wildlife Fund) which sees "Earth Hour" as the first step to other commitments from the signatories ...

Aviva goes green with carbon outputs

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
... environmental programs," said Allan Griffiths, chief executive officer of Aviva Australia. "These include a partnership with Conservation Volunteers Australia to plant native Australian flora, along with being a signatory to the United Nations Environmental ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... Queensland have agreed to urgently introduce trading of water in order and to spend hundreds of millions on water conservation projects in the face of the current drought that has about a half of the nations farmland drought declared. The Murray-Darling ...

Charity begins at Hunter Hall

... totalling around $700,000 to 38 charities ranging from those involved in medical funding and research, environmental conservation, youth, indigenous and refugee support and animal protection. Hunter Hall is one of a few publicly listed companies in Australia ...