BHP Billiton's demerger would parcel many of its coal assets into the proposed South32 spin-off, and the resources giant concedes that action to combat climate change might reduce their value.
The Commonwealth Bank has set new emissions reduction targets, and says using NGER and EEO data allowed it to cut by 75% the cost of conducting carbon 'due diligence' investigations into projects seeking finance.
Setting effective environmental key performance indicators is a very different task to developing sound financial ones, says Incitec Pivot's Clare Luehman.
Gladstone Ports has developed an in-house fix to cut dozer idle time, ANZ has targeted its most energy-inefficient branches and Australia Post has a new $500,000 fund to trial new technologies, according to their EEO public reports.
Amcor is piloting an integrated environmental, health and safety management system, based on AS4801 and ISO14001, says the company's latest sustainability report.