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Environmental, economic risks also present opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... technological risks, and so there's a pathway. R &D goes through the regulatory risk to some of the other ones, such as online data security, that really ties into another latent social risk - cyber-security." See Also: Climate change top perceived likely ...

Transparency International publishes anti-corruption report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... including subsidiaries, affiliates, joint-ventures and other holdings and country-by-country reporting on basic financial data and community contributions," according to the report. "Multinational corporations can and must play a significant role in ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... disclosure will strengthen as time passes. "I think it's fair to say that companies were cautious about disclosure of their data in the market," Fabian said. "Not all companies of course. For example, BHP, AGL and a number of leading companies have been ...

Women make gains on corporate boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... BDI tracks the representation of women on the boards of 850 Australian organisations, and the most recent index is based on data current as of January 2012. The ASX200 has shown the highest level of percentage increase of appointments of women across ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... residential mortgage backed securities in the fixed income ESG analysis, which presents challenges in gathering adequate data because most ESG research is focused on companies as opposed to asset-backed securities. "The challenge with fixed income is ...

AusLSA to provide access to environmental measurement tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... partnered with Greenstone Carbon Management on the reporting solution, which will allow members to input business consumption data including electricity, paper, waste and business travel, and calculate the environmental footprint. "The online Environmental ...

Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... with a 32% increase over 2010 and real estate, with a 16% increase over 2010. GRI launched its database in November 2011 and data is collected via reports registered directly with GRI, through one of GRI's data partners, through GRI's application level ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... costs as benchmarks." Swizzler pointed to SAP Carbon Impact as an example of a software solution. "We look to the business data warehousing together with the core of environmental compliance," she said. "One in-demand solution is SAP Carbon Impact. The ...

GBST, CAER to offer quantitative ESG data tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... governance - which can be incorporated into portfolio measurement and monitoring. The partnership combines GBST's quantitative data strategies with CAER's qualitative research. "CAER have a system that ranks companies on different criteria," said Kathy ...

Carbon Farming Initiative grants for biochar research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... willow and establish biochar field sites and trials, plus monitor and evaluate changes in soil chemistry and generate baseline data on biochar use. Monash University was granted AU$264,000 to study the potential of biochar and biochar/compost blends ...