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Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... develop a global standard on social responsibility. He has also served in expert working groups of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to develop the protocols on boundaries, materiality and reporting principles. Van der Lugt will lead a series of ...

GRI opens comment on anti-corruption, GHG guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is asking for public comment on its G4 draft guidance for anti-corruption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting. GRI is currently developing the next generation of its sustainability reporting guidelines ...

ESG disclosures relevant to investors' decision-making

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... investors to help analyse and inform investment decisions, according to research conducted by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Prince of Wales's Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) Project, in collaboration with Radley Yeldar. According ...

Shareholders to face activist lobbying on Woolworths vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... recently recognised when our Corporate Responsibility Report again achieved an A+ rating from the Global Reporting Initiative. Our hotel operational standards go well beyond regulatory requirements and we regret GetUp declined the opportunity to be fully ...

Accountancy profession a driver of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... the global debate over the construction of an integrated reporting model and the rollout of the next Global Reporting Initiative Framework rolls out, Burritt cautions against getting "trapped" in focusing on the external report, without looking to internal ...

Global Reporting Initiative G4 draft out for public comment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published an exposure draft of the new G4 framework, and has opened it up for public feedback. The G4 framework is focused on five main areas - boundary, application levels, governance and remuneration, supply ...

Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... UN Conference on Sustainable Development's outcome document. The four governments have invited the Global Reporting Initiative and the United Nations Environment Programme to support them in the initiative, which will aim to make sustainability reporting ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... appearing in the ASX50. Further, the number of companies structuring their sustainability reporting to the Global Reporting Initiative has stalled in the past three years. The report found that 46 companies in the ASX200 refer to the GRI in their sustainability ...

GRI Focal Point's local angle to sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The Australian Focal Point of the Global Reporting Initiative is mirroring work at the international level to have language put into the Rio+20 outcomes documents calling for listed and large private companies around the world to put sustainability ...

Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Australia is one of the top ten countries for sustainability reporting using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework, according to a statistical analysis of the GRI Sustainability Disclosure database. Australia had 4% of the total number of ...