Search Results

Showing 1231 - 1240 of 1282 results for "policy"

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... CR reporting, 100% of UK companies provide CR reporting, South Africa, which recently instituted a "report or explain" policy for companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, saw 97% with CR reporting,and 99% of Japanese companies provided CR ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability foundations. The group procurement team is also developing a sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) policy and SSCM code of conduct to govern our assessment of supply chain compliance. These will be introduced in December 2011. Offshore ...

75% of ASX100 exposed to corruption in high-risk countries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... companies are exposed to countries deemed high-risk for corruption, but 40% of those companies have no publicly stated policy that prohibits bribery or facilitation payments. "Given the clear increase in exposure and the increased scrutiny and penalties ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... and there were three recordable incidents in the 2011 financial year, down from 7 in 2009. The company has a "zero harm" policy for its site. "Although there were no serious injuries to any of AWE's employees or contractors this year, a single Lost Time ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... allocation needed over the next 20 years to low carbon assets, co-investment vehicles are likely to feature prominently in the policy settings, and we want to do our homework and see how we as an investment community can interact w/ the vehicles and ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... groups on climate change, including the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC), have called for policy action to stimulate private sector investment into climate change solutions that can create jobs and ensure long-term sustainability ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has developed two new standards that will measure greenhouse gas emissions across companies' value chains and across product life cycles. The Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) harmonizes global methodology to measure corporate ...

Miners, stakeholders agree to actions in Upper Hunter Valley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... along with the community. Many of the top ten ideas from the workshop deal with the 'big picture' including changes to policy and the development of new policy, plans and regulation. The development of these ideas into concrete actions will require the ...

Nearly half of ASX100 companies exposed to human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... systems to mitigate human rights exposure," Lyster said. "Only 15% [of those 47 companies] disclose evidence on human rights policy commitments, and only 6% have adequate reporting on human rights management and outcomes." The results of the research ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... leadership position," the report said. On the governance side, in 2011, the company established a new board membership policy that outlined its take on directors serving on multiple boards, "to guard against directors over committing their time," the ...