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London Stock Exchange joins Climate Bonds Partnership Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... breadth of the green bond sector," Rathi added. The Climate Bonds Initiative seeks to build "robust and transparent" assurance frameworks around green bond investment, said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative CEO. "LSE Group has taken a leading position ...

Altius Sustainable Bond Fund certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... senior portfolio manager, Altius Asset Management. Altius pursued RIAA accreditation as a way of providing third party assurance to retail consumers that the fund is sustainable, Goodhand said. "We'd gone down the path of developing the product and having ...

Ernst & Young joins Climate Bonds Initiative as partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... CEO. "In addition, EY have been actively contributing to the development of Version 2.0 of the Standard as part of our Assurance Roundtable," Kidney said. "We're now very excited to have the opportunity to deepen that relationship and work more broadly ...

Sustainability reporting improving, room to grow: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... in 2013.Nearly 809% - 78% - of companies have their report externally assured, while 10% of those who have external assurance are assured to a reasonable level, WBCSD said. "Our research and ongoing exchanges with members indicate that corporate reporting ...

KPMG Australia buys Banarra

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... Recent clients include MMG Limited, Sydney Airport and Westpac. Banarra expanded from report-related sustainability assurance to full service human rights and social impact advisory business services including human rights risk, ethical sourcing and ...

Investors, payday lenders engage on lending practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
A coalition of investors and other stakeholders that are engaging with ASX-listed payday lenders and goods rental companies are finding that the companies are receptive to their concerns over lending policies to financially vulnerable Australians. Michael ...

ANZ issues $600m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... brought a level of extra complexity as ANZ had to go through the certification process and will have to undergo regular assurance on use of proceeds going forward, White said. "Going forward, EY will verify the assets and the pool, initially on a six-month ...

GRI appoints Eric Dugelay to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... 2014. He is also director at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), working on the subject of assurance of sustainability information. Dugelay replaces retiring GRI Board member Eric Hespenheide, who is now chair of GRI's Global ...

Companies consider implications of new ASX principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... looking to achieve. There has been a lot of discussion about how they're going to make these disclosures, can they provide assurance, and they're certainly seeing a lot of encouraging signs about how they're going to disclose against this, and if so ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... including intended use of proceeds; reporting on the use of proceeds, project impacts, and benefits, and independent assurance. The investor group's activities build on the Green Bond Principles, published in January 2014. The goal is a "consistent ...