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Wesfarmers: lower CO2, more supply chain transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... to its sustainability report. Wesfarmers has grouped ten community and environmental impact principles into five areas - people, sourcing, community, environment and governance, and reported on their progress via an online publication. This represents ...

Montreal Carbon Pledge a building block: Cbus' Atkin

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... and I think investors are at varying levels of sophistication or working through the pledge, conceptually," Atkin said. "People understand that climate change will have an impact on the way in which we invest. The struggle is how you link up the theoretical ...

International Integrated Reporting Council launches Public Sector Pioneer Network

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Washington this week. "Transparent, responsive, and accountable institutions are a vital part of what it takes to improve people's lives and implement a sustainable development agenda," said Helen Clark, administrator of UNDP, in a statement. "Integrated ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... the Sydney metropolitan region. SGCH is one of the largest community housing providers in Australia and houses over 8,000 people in 4,300 homes. Westpac is in the process of setting its 2015 strategy for green bonds and social impact bonds, Toohill said. ...

Demand for responsible investments a call to action: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... industry?" O'Connor noted that consumer demand for responsible investment products is most clearly articulated by younger people at the beginning of their careers and retirees, meaning that there was scope to develop products aimed at both demographics. ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... The cash portfolio's mortgage book makes loans to community service organisations, aged care facilities and housing for people with disabilities and similar projects, in line with UCA Funds Management's broader commitment to invest 10% of its funds in ...

Role for custodian in ESG data analytics: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Asia are in an interesting phase," Gayer said. "The region is changing enormously - you have the demographic shift where people are joining the consumer class, and that puts pressures on company practices, whether it's producing clothing in Bangladesh ...

bankmecu MD discusses integrated reporting implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... are using IR for reporting purposes as part of the pilot program, but they are not yet a critical mass, Walsh said. "The people that are involved in the reporting council across different disciplines - accounting standards boards, the large audit firms ...

202020 Vision makes business case for urban green

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... that's been really successful in some places around Australia and we need to be communicating about this issue so that people on the ground elsewhere can benefit from it." 202020 Vision will synthesise the products of the workshops into a national action ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... and disclose a wider scope of potential risks to the fund, Chioatto said. "This is a change in thinking for trustees and people are having to process this and understand how it actually then has to be done," Chioatto said. "They have to operationalise ...