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CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
CDP, the Global Compact Network Australia and WWF-Australia are collaborating to push a set of global initiatives in Australia for corporate action on climate change ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in December. The three groups will work to ...

Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative issues communication

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... stakeholders including the board of directors, senior leaders, and employees," said Gavin Power, deputy director, UN Global Compact. "Our partner exchanges are already using it to start an internal conversation about their role in sustainable development ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... baseline. This has been driven by a combination of many factors and recent events like Rana Plaza, but also the UN Global Compact and its intentions. They released a paper last year about it, examining how global governments/nations have less power in ...

PRI announces new Advisory Council members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... service providers), two permanent UN representatives (from the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact), and an appointed chair. It represents the PRI's global signatory base, with reserved positions for each category of ...

Catholic Super makes case for global climate policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... right), CEO of Catholic Super speaks at a press conference earlier this week at the UN Climate Summit on the UN Global Compact's "Caring for Climate" initiative. Pictured from left: Nick Nuttall (moderator), head of communications and outreach and spokesperson ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... of approaches for clients. "There is a certain amount of commonality," Bowers said. "We look closely at the UN Global Compact and we introduce those core themes across those funds that have an ESG screen, but when you're talking to the individual asset ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... despite the fact that we have well established institutions such as the Global Reporting Initiative and the UN Global Compact, practitioners at the coal face are frustrated with the slow pace of change, the lack of leadership at the top and the public ...

Sedex Global partners with World Bank Institute on platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... themselves against core international standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative and the United Nations Global Compact pillars, as well as giving suppliers guidance in areas of weakness. For buyers, the platform will provide more information to ...

Australian mining companies report on human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... managing human rights as a way of reducing risk. A new report by the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) and the Global Compact Network Australia examines how four mining companies - BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Newmont Mining Corporation and MMG - have ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... union representing workers in the chemicals, energy and mining sectors. He served as a member of the board of the Global Compact from 2007-2012, and is currently a member of a number of different supervisory boards in Germany, where he has contributed ...