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AGL Energy joins We Mean Business Coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... to improve its disclosures and activities on carbon emissions reductions. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) has lodged resolutions for AGL's annual general meeting (AGM) demanding the company set a quantitative target for annual ...

Vote Your Super rallies support for AGL AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... target for annual reductions on emissions from power generation activities. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) submitted resolutions to AGL for its 30 September AGM, asking for increased disclosures around why the greenhouse ...

ACCR considers appeal in Commonwealth Bank case

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) is considering whether to appeal a federal court decision that affirms the right of companies to refuse ordinary resolutions to their annual general meeting (AGM). Last year, ACCR put a resolution ...

Court back Commonwealth Bank in ACCR case

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... has ruled in favour of Commonwealth Bank of Australia in a case brought by the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) and Environmental Justice Australia on the right of shareholders to put a resolution on carbon emissions disclosures ...

ACCR to lodge carbon disclosure resolutions for AGL AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) is lodging resolutions for AGL's annual general meeting (AGM) demanding the company set a quantitative target for annual reductions on emissions from power generation activities, among other ...

VicSuper exploring developing climate change fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... business case to assess how viable a climate-specific option would be, said Kirsten Simpson, m anager corporate responsibility at VicSuper. "The actual research that we'll be doing with the membership base will look at how they're feeling about climate ...

Vote Your Pension platform calls for global member action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... someone else's go up.... There will be an Australian focus." AODP supported the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility's campaign to introduce climate change resolutions at the AGMs of the big four banks in Australia last year, Poulter noted. ...

Materiality reviews a source of strategic value: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... business issues, not just sustainability issues. That goes right around organisational thinking around corporate responsibility and sustainability issues, where there are some who still have the perception that corporate responsibility and sustainability ...

VicSuper signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... international level, and helping to shape frameworks and industry understanding aligns perfectly with our Corporate Responsibility Strategy VicSuper is an AU$15 billion profit-to-member superananution fund. Last year it became the first Australian superannuation ...

Queensland Investment Corporation joins GRESB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... leasable space across the USA, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and South America, GRESB said. "We believe that corporate responsibility leadership requires both action and transparency, and over a few short years GRESB has become the de facto standard for ...