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European Commission proposes standards for ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... world," said Teresa Fogelberg, deputy chief executive of the Global Reporting Initiative. "In recent years countries like India, China, Brazil, South Africa and the US have pioneered a number of innovative policies on sustainability disclosure. This ...

Monash University selected as sustainable development hub

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... research, education and action. MSI runs programs on the ground in countries throughout Asia, including Indonesia, Bangladesh, India and Vietnam. "The intersection of climate change, urbanisation, poverty reduction and the management of natural resources ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... rate of productivity growth has also been declining as a long term trend since 1970, despite the best efforts of China and India to keep it powering along. It has fallen from about 2.2% growth in 1970 to about 1.6% now, and will continue to meander along ...

RepuTex-ESG offering free ESG data on Asian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... RepuTex ESG-Connect provides research on over 1,200 companies across Asia in markets including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia. The platform will provide free company ESG performance reports and ESG data ...

AMP Capital fund buys stake in Indian clean energy company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Hyderabad-based SGEL has both geographical and fuel diversification, positioning it as a leading renewable energy company in India, said Anoop Seth, AMP Capital's head of infrastructure Asia. The fact that SGEL's power generation assets are based on ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... activity - it's a much longer view." Microfinance lender Opportunity International Australia, which works in programmes in India, Indonesia and the Philippines, does not at this time use SROI as a measure, but is experimenting with it in a pilot examining ...

ETI to focus on collaborative supply chain initiatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... each supply chain, and we have already started this process for sandstone sourced from Rajasthan and garments from southern India," ETI said in its annual review. "Each will target the underlying factors that keep workers trapped in low pay and poor ...

MSCI to collaborate on Access to Nutrition Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... revenue, and three spotlight indices that assess ten of the largest food and beverage companies by revenue operating in India, Mexico and South Africa. The ATNI rating methodology evaluates companies' strategies and policies around nutrition as well ...

Sustainability measures decline in information technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... about their ICT sustainability policies, behaviour and technologies. Surveys were conducted in Australia, Canada, China, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The methodology, developed by Connection Research and RMIT ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... and return that is naturally coming out ofwhat you might call sustainable themes, even going to the growing economies of India and China, and what is driving primary energy demand, and alternative fuels and supply constraints of agricultural land. They ...