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New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has developed two new standards that will measure greenhouse gas emissions across companies' value chains and across product life cycles. The Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) harmonizes global methodology to measure corporate ...

Miners, stakeholders agree to actions in Upper Hunter Valley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... along with the community. Many of the top ten ideas from the workshop deal with the 'big picture' including changes to policy and the development of new policy, plans and regulation. The development of these ideas into concrete actions will require the ...

Nearly half of ASX100 companies exposed to human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... systems to mitigate human rights exposure," Lyster said. "Only 15% [of those 47 companies] disclose evidence on human rights policy commitments, and only 6% have adequate reporting on human rights management and outcomes." The results of the research ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... leadership position," the report said. On the governance side, in 2011, the company established a new board membership policy that outlined its take on directors serving on multiple boards, "to guard against directors over committing their time," the ...

Sustainability measures decline in information technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... user computing, enterprise and data centre, IT as a low-carbon enabler and metrics. The methodology measured attitude, policy, practice and technology and assigned a numerical score based on a maximum of 100. The average ICT Sustainability Index (ITSx) ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... such as coal gain are known quantities by and large for investors, based on well accepted technologies and regulatory and policy regimes, and in comparison, renewable energy investments have different risk profiles. "I think [institutional investors] ...

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... aspirational. The only part of the survey and the ranking that we struggle with a little bit is that it is skewed towards the policy side. We would prefer a focus more on the implementation - we think there are organisations that are very good at putting ...

Australian property funds top GRESB list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... 8 th - 10 th respectively. GRESB's scores are based on 39 metrics that are broken into two categories - management and policy and implementation and measurement. Management and policy represented 30% of the total GRESB score, with the weight given to ...

Metcash drop paper supplier over Indonesian foresting concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... retender at the next round, Rhodes said. This has been the first investigation under Metcash's new supply chain management policy, which was approved by its board of directors in March of this year and was three years in the making, Rhodes said. As part ...

Paper guides investors to ESG investment integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... several approaches in the outlined frameworks for integrated investment processes always means beginning with defining the policy and moving through investment decisions and long term interactions with invested companies. "Institutional investors will ...