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Business begins unwinding of carbon tax arrangements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... voluntary program, so in the interim, there is no obligation for companies," Wilder said. "The real issue I think is for those people or projects which were relying on selling carbon into a market that no longer exists. Most are unlikely to have a plan ...

Quantifying intangible assets to manage, drive company value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... integrating them into the actual management accounts and P&L, which means it's confined and real. Your brand is worth x and people are worth y and sustainability is worth z to your annual P&L." The value driver tree model breaks performance down into ...

Creating shared value a strategic opportunity for banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... implementing a shared value strategy, and elements of its programs are mentioned in the paper. "What we've been doing is educating people across the bank in shared value strategy, including products and markets - it's an educational process to bring ...

ACSI lists ASX sustainability reporting leaders, laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... congratulate the good companies as call out the bad ones," Murphy said. "We have feedback from corporate sustainability people that it speaks volumes, validates their existence when investor groups comment on the good quality reporting. That's something ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance to open SA Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... in Adelaide to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney Good Shepherd Microfinance, working with the South Australia state government ...

Addressing the human crisis of climate change displacement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... but that displacement can be prevented and repaired if government policies are put in place to focus on ensuring affected people have access to land, according to a new book edited by climate change expert Scott Leckie. Scott Leckie, executive director ...

University of Sydney Business School adopts CAER research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... training on the platform," he said. "One of the things that CAER brings to the party is a strong local research team. The people using the research at the school will be able to chat to our analysts about this particular company or that particular co ...

CFI a source of economic opportunity for Indigenous groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Gerrard said. "One of the good things that the CFI set up was a clear pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to participate," she said. "There are methodologies, such as the savanna burning methodology in what's known as the 1,000 millimetre ...

Co-ops, mutuals a "third way" for public service provision

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... phase ten to 15 years ago," Hems said. "The biggest challenge we've been faced with is recognising the potential. Most people think of for-profits and not for profits, and have the traditional models for both, without recognising that co-ops and mutual ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... participated in the survey, a record high for ACCSR. "Despite the fact that we've got high awareness now of CSR, and there people with jobs in CSR - I'm using that term very broadly- despite the fact that we have well established institutions such as ...