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Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... their asset allocations, while 80% of partners have or will increase their engagement on climate change with companies and policy makers. The 2011 study, Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, predicted that investors ...

KPMG: companies should review anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... could lead to problems in understanding. That's the first issue. The bigger problem is embedding it in the business. The policy-work they can deal with without too much pain to make sure it's descriptive enough. It's the application that's the problem ...

Investors make 2012 climate change investment commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... change and sustainability with companies worldwide and support international, national, sector-specific and sub-national policy action. "There are many actions that investors and companies can independently and proactively take to seize low-carbon opportunities ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... investors globally could stand to lose as much as US$8tr by 2030 because of the impacts of climate change and lack of internal policy coordination. Now that the carbon pricing package is a reality, the debate over climate change may move on to focus ...

Durban agreements to impact Australia's ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... required, we encourage national governments to continue to show leadership on climate change and put in place investment grade policy that provides investors with predictability and clear market signals," said Stephanie Pfeifer, Executive Director IIGCC ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... the capture most go beyond common practice in the landfill industry to meet the additionality criteria, and Ange Nichols, policy officer at the Clean Energy Council, noted that methodology still needs clarification for baseline measurements from which ...

CSL reports new anti-corruption policy, lower emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Biopharmaceutical company CSL adopted a new anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy, lowered lost time injury frequency rates (LTIFR) by 30% and lowered energy consumption, greenhouse gas and waste intensity per unit of vaccine and plasma production ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... that they have issued for their global supply-chains. The ACSI report finds that only 17% of ASX200 companies issue an LHR policy covering their supply chains, versus 35% in a global sample, with similar levels of difference in corporate procedures to ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... report. "There is a risk that there will be a relocation of industry which may compromise the environmental integrity of a policy. Preserving it by managing the competitiveness impacts is one way of addressing this risk. It may also have environmental ...

Woolworths' employment, supply chain policies in 2011 report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Mathieson Group, which the company acknowledged are both areas of public interest. The group also detailed its ethical sourcing policy, which "includes four key risk areas: bribery and corruption; labour rights; working conditions; and environmental ...