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Woodside shareholders reject carbon disclosure resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... ACSI governance advice, inquiring how the fund's investment managers will vote and considering the fund's internal voting policy, she explained. The Climate Advocacy Shareholder Group put submitted similar proposals to three other companies this reporting ...

ANZ reviewing "sensitive sector" policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... include stakeholder consultation and take place throughout 2011," the bank said. "It aims to deliver consolidated, concise policy documents that are user-friendly and provide effective guidance to relationship managers and risk officers across our business." ...

Global push for "report or explain" on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Business, SOMO, Calvert Investments, and IDEARSE. The Australian Stock Exchange has not yet adopted a report or explain policy for ESG reporting. ESG reporting is introduced via Principle 7 of the ASX Corporate Governance Council Corporate Governance ...

Nominations open for GRI's Stakeholder Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative is calling for nominations for member to the 2012-2014 Stakeholder Council, its policy forum. There are 50 members to the Stakeholder Council, drawn from business, mediating institutions, and civil society organisations ...

Australian companies fail on labour reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... materiality, decent conditions of work, secure employment, commitment and adherence to local and international standards, OHS policy and management, and responsibilities to workforce of sub-contractors and business partners. Banarra assigned evaluations ...

GRI releases new standards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... issues." The new standards do have impact on current sustainability reporting for Australian companies, said John Purcell, policy advisor, corporate regulation at CPA Australia. "It is relevant to specific areas of Australian industry, such as some of ...

PRI hires Rob Lake as director of strategic development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... will be responsible for PRI's country networks, signatory outreach and recruitment, the academic network and the public policy network. As director, he will also work with the implementation support team in delivering tools and strategies to assist investors ...

Mercer expands ESG consulting capability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... HESTA Super Fund where he served as investments analyst, PRI. At HESTA, he created the fund's ESG and Active Ownership policy framework and managed the fund's commitments in accordance with the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. Mercer ...

ANZ targets 40 percent women managers by September

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... review and is "[e]mbedding gender equity into our human resource policies and practices," such as a global recruitment policy mandating qualified women on the shortlist for all roles at the company. ANZ was named one of 98 "employers of choice for women" ...

Government introduces carbon emission pricing plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
... rules of the game clear from the outset," Fabian said. The Business Council of Australia reiterated that a carbon pricing policy should "enable least-cost emissions reduction," according to a statement by Acting Chief Executive Maria Tarrant "Policies ...