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Ann Byrne to step down as ACSI CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... last five years and after October I look forward to reading about its future successes," Byrne said. Byrne is currently a board member of Oxfam Australia, a member of the Monash University Department of Accounting and Finance Advisory Committee, a member ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... economic and moral case for investors to divest from fossil fuel companies. Bill McKibben, co-founder and chairman of the board of 350.org McKibben, the author of The End of Nature, and co-founder and chairman of the board of 350.org, an international ...

Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... by the Greens," said Senator Christine Milne. "Now that climate change denier David Murray has left the fund's helm, the Board of Guardians should review investments in the coal companies driving global warming. We know that if we burned all Australia's ...

CDP signs agreements with SASB, GRI to further standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
CDP has signed separate agreements to partner with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) with the intention of improving corporate reporting of climate change and sustainability issues. SASB is ...

EITI conference advocates for moving beyond transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... undermine years of work by civil society groups and investors. Yet here we have these same companies sitting on the EITI board. I think that kind of juxtaposition, of companies saying that they are for transparency but then litigating against transparency ...

Fund managers assess retailers' risks in Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Woolford asked if the companies were taking any additional specific measures to address these risks, if the issue was on the board/management radar as a potential reputation or business risk, "whether the company was taking additional steps to ensure ...

CSA calls for "safe harbour" to encourage IR disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... to unpack material business risks more effectively. That also means that you're going to be doing better reporting to the board, and the board and the senior executive team will have an idea of what's going on across the business and not just in silos." ...

Graham Dooley new president of Australian Water Association

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... United Utilities Australia group of companies, Macarthur Water Pty Ltd and Riverland Water Pty Ltd. He is also an independent board member of the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia and the chairman of the Salisbury Water Management ...

VicSuper, SAS Trustee Corporation to divest from tobacco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... statement. "With tobacco products imposing a significant burden on society in terms of health care and environmental costs, the board and management team at VicSuper feel it is the right decision to move away from investing in this industry." STC is ...

ACSI names leaders, laggards in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... correlation between company practices on reporting ESG and other ESG factors including a "high correlation of ACSI voting against board endorsed resolutions where a company has poor sustainability reporting; higher percentage of ACSI and broader market ...