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One third of ASX100 companies assure sustainability reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... scope which sustainably performance information the company would like to have assured. The report found that environmental data were the most commonly assured disclosures, followed by labour practices and product responsibility and society, but that ...

LGS generating energy savings certificates from retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... said. "They manage all that on our behalf. It requires quite a lot of documentation, particularly on the before and after data. The scheme asks you, what equipment have you replaced, and you must submit documentary evidence of that. You need consultants' ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... of NZX50 companies reporting direct impact. New Zealand's emissions trading scheme has been in operation since 2008. The data for this year's CDP report was collected before the July launch date. At the time that CDP 2012 was gathering information, 15% ...

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 ...