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Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework, according to a statistical analysis of the GRI Sustainability Disclosure database. Australia had 4% of the total number of reports registered with GRI's database in 2011, making it number eight on ...

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Responsible Investment (UNPRI), 19% to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) and 17% to the Carbon Disclosure Project. The report noted that superannuation funds could do better, and pressure from members would help nudge funds along ...

La Trobe University wins sustainability reporting award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... consultancy Banarra was first runner up in the Best SME report category, while Amcor was also a runner up for the Best Carbon Disclosure category. La Trobe University was also a runner up in the Relevance and Materiality, the Openness and Honesty category ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... revisions, we have to form working groups. At this moment we have five working groups. One of them, the Supply Chain Disclosure Working Group, started even before G4 because we knew this was a topic to be added to the next generation of the guidelines. ...

ASA opposes Santos CEO $2m share grant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... salary calculations were based, and questioned the criteria upon which the board based the share grant. "They don't disclosure who the peer group is, or how they calculate it," he said. "Secondly, as Peter [Coates] said to me, 'Vas we have five criteria ...

Fund manager: remuneration reports filled with "mumbo jumbo"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... of executive remuneration reports filed to 30 June 2011, disclosures had improved, "but there is still work to do on disclosure." ASIC reviewed a sample of 50 remuneration reports from ASX300 companies for the financial year ended 30 June 2011. In a ...

Investors require more corporate ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Sustainability and Integrated Reporting that investors need "materiality plus data quality and consistency" when it comes to disclosure of ESG to allow them to make informed investment decisions. Citing research jointly conducted by ACSI and the Financial ...

Integrated reporting to provide analysis, innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Integrated reporting could act as a "steadying arm" to the invisible hand of the free market, said Jane Diplock, director, Singapore Exchange. Speaking at the Australian Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Conference on Sustainability and Integrated Reporting ...

Voluntary sustainability disclosures carry legal weight

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... statements can be backed up by data and they must be aware that disclosures to reporting frameworks such as the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) will be evaluated against other disclosures, according to two experts at law firm Baker and McKenzie. "Investors ...

Corporate sustainability a vehicle for value creation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Corporate sustainability should be about strategic value creation, rather than just a statement of values, and the integrated reporting framework could assist companies in seeing environmental, social and governance (ESG) as central to strategy, according ...