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Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... actually there are very different conceptions between the developed world and developing countries. While child labour standard are emerging now, there are still some different standards about children working in family businesses, those grey areas ...

Women only 19% of superannuation fund trustee boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Women are a minority on superannuation trustee boards, comprising only 19% of trustees at not-for-profit funds and an estimated 10% of retail funds, according to research from Rainmaker Information. "Women are grossly under-represented on fund trustee ...

CEFC moves to Sydney as industry prepares for its launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... some of the normal time frames in commercialising technologies, such as around the performance period, to accelerate the standard timeframe of five to 10 years to prove the commercial viability of the technology to two to three years or five years." ...

Working group to develop Sharia-compliant green securities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... to provide advice into the eligibility criteria - the working group includes International Finance Corporation (IFC), Standard & Poor's, Aviva Investors and KPMG. See Also: IGCC working group engages on green finance design, function Climate Bond Standard ...

Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) is moving ahead, having recently approved a fourth procedure to measure and calculate emissions reductions. But legal experts note that there are several areas under discussion associated with the set-up and establishment ...

WOB: ASX200 companies not meeting gender diversity standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
The majority of ASX200 companies have "serious work" to do to meet gender diversity standards embodied in ASX Principle 3, according to a survey carried out by Women on Boards (WOB). WOB surveyed 82 ASX200 companies' public disclosures for its WOB Traffic ...

Mercer ratings demonstrate challenge of integrating ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Mercer only gave 9% of more than 5,000 environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies in their database their highest ratings because their evaluation is based on how strategies integrate ESG into the active construction of portfolio ...

Managing regulatory impacts priority for CSR practitioners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs are predominately driven by the view that its value is derived from enhancing corporate reputation, reducing risk and facilitating regulatory compliance, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Ethinvest, an investment advisory firm, is forming a working group to lobby for changes to address what the managing director calls a lack of clarity around the process of putting shareholder resolutions to an annual general meeting (AGM). Trevor Thomas ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Although nine companies in the ASX50 are "well placed" in how they integrate non-financial information with financial disclosures in public documents, the majority of ASX50 companies have been assessed as being less than 50% integrated, according to ...