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Wesfarmers publishes 2012 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... process input for cooling purposes, and to growth in Coles businesses, "including more effective water metering to improve data quality." Richard Goyder, Wesfarmers managing director, identified human capital and carbon emissions as material issues to ...

RepuTex-ESG offering free ESG data on Asian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... RepuTex-ESG, a Hong Kong-based research firm, has launched a platform providing free environmental, social and governance data on Asian companies. RepuTex ESG-Connect provides research on over 1,200 companies across Asia in markets including China, Hong ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... Superannuation Investors (ACSI). The study was conducted on ACSI's behalf by governance specialists Ownership Matters and is based on data from 23 major institutional investors. The report analysed the investors' votes on 1,895 resolutions at meetings ...

ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... reports. "The solution is providing better targeted and more concise information and using more creative visualisation of data," Black said. "Different types of readers will take different things from a sustainability report. It's not realistic to think ...

Study: GRI can boost public sector reporting efficiency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... indicators in GRI's 3.1 guidelines has shown that 60 indicators can potentially be answered from general mandatory reporting data, or with some modification of information from existing reporting data, and a further 29 indicators could potentially be ...

MSCI expands ESG research to fixed income

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
MSCI has broadened its ESG research coverage to include fixed income, offering data to investors for integrating environmental, social and governance factors into their investment process and measuring ESG risk exposure. MSCI's ESG research now covers ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... techniques to enable that kind of thinking. " One of the key challenges to further uptake, Thompson noted, was the lack of common data and metrics to measure natural capital. Thompson pointed to the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) as ...

ASX100 CEO pay, bonuses decline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... economic benefit - realised pay - to CEOs. However, the report noted that there are variations in the statutory reported pay data and the actual pay data receive by CEOs. "Analysis of the highest and lowest paid CEO's in the Top 100 and ASX101-200 shows ...

Australian property continues to lead GRESB performers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... according to GRESB's accompanying report. This year, 450 property companies and funds submitted information to GRESB with data on 36,000 properties representing US$1.32tr in global assets under management. Australia represented 9% of the total database ...

Equinix Sydney facility receives LEED certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has been awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system gold certification for the first phase instruction of its facility in Mascot, Sydney. LEED is ...