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Crowe Horwath: sustainability as competitive advantage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... essentially want to understand why it's worthwhile for them to know what the stakeholders are saying. When we add materiality analysis, which we've done for years, even though it's just coming into G4, communicating risks that are already within the ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Ambachtsheer said. "It's got three stages - the first one is developing principles; do you have formal ESG beliefs around the materiality of the ESG factors, stakeholder needs, etc.... The next two critical steps are integrating the principles into investment ...

ASX could include ESG language in new governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Investors across the board know and understand hat these risks are material. Organisations will start thinking more about materiality and risk, and those organisations that haven't reported will start thinking, what do we need to communicate to our investors ...

CDSB expands natural capital in new reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... which 16% is directly related to forests risk commodities. The CDSB reporting guidelines also encompass boundaries and materiality as part of the new proposals. "The other main thing we look at is boundaries - organisational boundaries," Guthrie said. ...

RIAA launches RI Academy in Canada, India

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... contributed to by investors all over the world and it has been written in such a way that's generic enough to argue the materiality of ESG factors. RI Academy cites regulatory examples across the world in terms of trends in policy and regulation, but ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... and draw in other issues, including policy uncertainty around how carbon will be priced in Australia, and defining materiality of environmental, social and governance issues as a result of G4 and the Integrated Reporting framework. "I think one of the ...

IIRC, SASB to collaborate on compatability of frameworks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... improved disclosure on material sustainability factors. Both organizations put investors at the heart of determining materiality." SASB is developing sustainability accounting standards covering more than 80 industries in ten sectors, a project that ...

NAB, bankmecu, Stockland on Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The final version of the Integrated Reporting framework has given greater clarity to how companies can report on materiality and content elements while increasing the flexibility of the framework's application by companies, according to the three Australian ...

bankmecu: integrated reporting develops integrated thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... of the business and the stakeholders that might be interested in that corporate reporting, and also the way we did materiality assessment to identify those parts of the business that were relevant. I think that it was interesting and challenging, because ...

GRI launches 2013 taxonomy, online G4 support tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... fourth generation of the GRI guidelines. It was launched in May and its enhancements include a new focus on defining materiality of environmental, social and governance factors.