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AODP, ClientEarth to challenge funds on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... their positive approach to assessing and mitigating these risks. However, many funds are failing to take any steps, and the gap between the best and the worst is widening. Those funds which are falling behind may be in breach of their legal duties."

Sedex Global partners with World Bank Institute on platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
Sedex Global and OpenCorporates will partner with the World Bank Institute to develop the Open Supply Chain Platform, an initiative aimed at companies' transparency and performance in responsible supply chain data. The Open Supply Chain Platform will ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... transparency and accountability. If companies are going to enhance their brand and reputation by committing to closing the gap or reconciliation, if you're going to have the upside, you have to be accountable. Self-regulation isn't far enough for Indigenous ...

Addis, Blackburn-Wright open impact investment firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Sandy Blackburn-Wright, former head of social innovation for Westpac, and Rosemary Addis, former social innovation strategist at the Australian Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), have launched a company that will consult ...

IIRC asks investors to critique pilot integrated reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... associated with key milestones and targets, continue to look beyond the short and medium term to a longer term horizon, close the gap between strategy and risks, governance and future value creation, [and] identify assumptions associated with longer ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
Slightly more than a third of Australian consumer staples and consumer discretionary companies have a publicly disclosed supply chain labour and human rights (LHR) policy, and none of them have board oversight of LHR issues, according to research from ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... high reliance on nuclear energy and the bad debt situation. Japan is an interesting one. Demographics come into play - the gap between young and the old isn't great. And also governance - Japan doesn't weigh well on governance issues, either. There are ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... developed countries with fewer skilled workers - are a reality for the oil and gas industry. Match those factors with the gap in skills shortage, and AXA IM concludes that there is reason for investors to engage with invested companies on these issues. ...

UNPRI writes letter to UNGC leaders and laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... reports. That 40.1% has included firms such as BHP Billiton, Aker Solutions, Severn Trent, Merck Kga, Oriflame Cosmetics, The Gap and LVMH. Additionally, the UNPRI signatories sent letters to 80 leaders - companies identified as haing advanced-level ...

CSIRO: engagement increases wind farm development approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... literature and information review, case studies and media analysis of newspaper articles. The study attempted to analyse the gap between the conventional wisdom that wind-generated electricity is a tested and accepted alternative energy resource and ...