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British government to mandate LSE greenhouse gas disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange's main market will have to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions from 2013, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced. The British government will introduce legislation bringing in the new ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... or adapt to the impacts of climate change. They combine that explicit environmental mission with a similar profile to standard debt instruments, covering treasury-style bonds, treasury-style retail offerings "involving a coupon linked to carbon credits ...

Women make gains on corporate boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... issue for them is how they report. We've convened a Principle 3 standards committee to help develop a diversity reporting standard." Braund warned that going forward, increasing board representation for women will require companies to broaden their criteria ...

Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... United Nations Environment Programme to support them in the initiative, which will aim to make sustainability reporting standard practice among companies as a way to monitor their impacts and their contribution to sustainable development. The initiative ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... of corruption, how fair the judicial/penal system is, respect for political and civil rights. That goes along side out standard measure, which is looking at purely fundamentals of a government, and where I think this is important and makes a lot more ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
More than 1800 companies joined the UN Global Compact in 2011, a 54% increase over 2010 growth figures, but an annual survey showed that while signatories are building environmental and social factors into strategies and policies, there are wide gaps ...

Report: US$174bn global market for climate-themed bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... that will provide investors with an internationally consistent tool for green bond preferencing. See Also: Climate Bond Standard to screen green bonds Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... rights policies they disclose, like other areas of their business performance, are also of an internationally competitive standard." The report, conducted by MSCI ESG Research and sponsored by LUCRF Super, analysed the public disclosures of ASX200 companies ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... highlight their concerns. Carlsson-Sweeny noted that listed Australian media companies are engaged with investors to a normal standard for listed companies in terms of holding investor days and meeting with institutional investors, but are still falling ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Investment manager Perpetual will continue to roll out its dashboard report approach to embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into investment decisions, including further reports on its universe of equities and preparing ...