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Mercer gives top rating to 9% of ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Only 9% of more than 5,000 investment strategies in Mercer database achieve the highest ratings on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings. Mercer has rated strategies within its Global Investment Manager Database (GIMD) for ESG since 2008 ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... produce concise reports supplemented by online in-depth reports targeting the needs of different stakeholders, including live data sets online to allow stakeholders to interrogate the data to suit their needs. This is a long term journey, and there will ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Fifty organisations, including National Australia Bank, collaborated with the CDP in order to gather the emissions-related data from their suppliers. The CDP reported that supplier engagement is also increasing - 67% of responding suppliers reported ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... investment analysts," Woods said. "How do you take ESG analysis and make it relevant to investment decisions? You can get ESG data, you can get analysis of that data, but then the question is how to translate that into how investment managers make decisions. ...

GRI establishing working groups for G4

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... nominations will be placed on the GRI website in the last week in January. G4 should address requirements for sustainability data and enable reporters to provide relevant information to various stakeholders, including shareholders, investors and consumers. ...

Westfield GHG emissions decrease, energy efficiency increase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... The greatest opportunities for reduction are in electricity and waste through ongoing monitoring of electricity and waste data and implementing operational efficiencies. Emissions are forecast to remain stable for the next five years based on current ...

CDP: U.S. farmers' GHG disclosures and management varied

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... the report said. "Others are implementing comprehensive sustainable agriculture initiatives but did not report emissions data to quantify emissions reductions. Still others can report quantitative data but are unable to show improvements over time because ...

Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... about ESG in a structured way, and more importantly, it captures the analysts' views on a particular issue in two ways. CAER data will pop out the key issues on the companies - the negative issues, and then we ask the analysts to decide of the issues ...

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... crucial as well," Magarey said. "It comes back to what gets measured gets done, so it's very important that to collect the data and look at it against key metrics." The institute's recommendations and study come at a time when Australian companies are ...

Australian and NZ companies increase community giving in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... company support is up to 20%. This rise may be due to more active promotion of volunteering by members but also improved data collection. Employee volunteering continues to represent a huge opportunity for business to further its community contributions." ...