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Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... indigenous and local communities often have special expertise. There are early signs of this happening in Africa and Latin America for example with the mining industry, but it is early days still. A good body of experience is being built under the Business ...

NAB endorses natural capital declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank and Rabobank are the first two banks to endorse a financial sector declaration to address the use of natural capital by businesses. NAB has become a signatory of the Natural Capital Declaration, which affirms the importance of ...

ANZ's employee engagement, net profit increases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Responsibility Review, ANZ reported that it introduced its human rights standard in 2010, and in the first year of implementation, the bank reviewed their standards to ensure they reflected the human rights standard, defined the standards and acceptable ...

Australia enters the era of carbon as a commodity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... International and Mexico's Fideicomiso para el Ahorro de Energia Electrica (FIDE) points in another direction. Financial adviser Bank of America Merrill Lynch assisted in the deal, which supports the implementation of a lighting energy efficiency programme ...

Sustainability measures decline in information technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... technologies. Surveys were conducted in Australia, Canada, China, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The methodology, developed by Connection Research and RMIT, calculated separate indices for five areas in ICT sustainability ...

Report: 100 South African companies used GRI in 2010

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
An analysis of South African companies has found that 100 companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) have written sustainability reports based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidances for the 2010/2011 financial year, up from 86 ...