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Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The development of an Australian water accounting standard means that companies will be able to provide disclosure about water rights and obligations in a financially meaningful fashion, at a time when Australian companies are coming under scrutiny ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... annual reports for the 2011-2012 financial year, which will come out from September, will contain more disclosures, and disclosure will strengthen as time passes. "I think it's fair to say that companies were cautious about disclosure of their data in ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
More than two thirds of 22 ASX100 water-sensitive companies responding to a Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) request for disclosure on water management identify water as a substantial risk to business, but only 55% report board-level oversight of water-related ...

British government to mandate LSE greenhouse gas disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... announced. The British government will introduce legislation bringing in the new regulations from April 2013. The Carbon Disclosure Project welcomed the news, and recommended that the British government adopt a climate change reporting framework developed ...

Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... months to establish the scope of work. "Governments can play a crucial role in driving sustainability practices and disclosure at a national level," said Villy Sovndal, Denmark's minister for foreign affairs, in a statement accompanying the initiative's ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) will work with the Carbon Disclosure Project to develop the framework by October of this year, and are calling on companies to disclose their methane emissions and ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... deliberations with companies that we have this particular ESG positioning. For example, we're a signatory to the Carbon Disclosure Project. We also are a member of the Investor Group on Climate Change and I sit on the executive of that. We try and wave ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The vast majority of ASX200 companies do not provide a sufficient level of disclosure on sustainability risk and disclosure "continues to be of questionable quality," according to research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... statement accompanying the report's release. "Huge strides have been made in recent years, for example to incorporate risk disclosure into financial reporting. In addition the development of sustainability reporting provides a new dimension from which ...

GRI Focal Point's local angle to sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The Australian Focal Point of the Global Reporting Initiative is mirroring work at the international level to have language put into the Rio+20 outcomes documents calling for listed and large private companies around the world to put sustainability ...