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NCD launches Soft Commodities Forest-risk Assessment Tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... policies adopted by banks and investors to analyse the risk of deforestation and forest degradation in the agricultural value chain. "Addressing deforestation is high on the twenty-first century policy agenda," said Achim Steiner, UN under-secretary-general ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... reporting scope 1 and2 emissions are more likely to invest in initiatives to reduce emissions and find savings across the value chain."

EY buys Net Balance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Jeyaretnam told The Sustainability Report. Net Balance brings "expertise and experience across the sustainability value chain, expertise working with the public, private and not for profit sectors, and deep technical experience," Jeyaretnam said. When ...

CDP: ASX200 companies set short term goals for C02 reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... disclosed scope 1 and 2 emissions from their operations, and 54% of companies disclosed scope 3 emissions from their value chain activities," the report said. "While companies were able to identify the most carbon intensive activities from their value ...

CDP calls for corporate stewardship to manage water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... robust water stewardship strategies are characterized by having a comprehensive knowledge of water use across their value chain and the impact (current and projected) that water-related issues have on their business and vice versa," CDP said in the report. ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Account, to establish an economic valuation of the company's environmental, social and economic impacts along its value chain, including down the supply chain. "If you look at Puma, Puma do environmental accounting," McWilliams said. "They are currently ...

Corporates should look beyond CSR to creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... in which companies can do social good while also developing new products and markets, lifting productivity in the value chain and building a supportive industry in areas where they do business, Dunn said. "There are examples of this, like Rio Tinto talking ...

PRI working group calls for sustainable palm oil commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... taken against any RSPO members that fail to provide such maps. "Our members are invested in all parts of the palm oil value chain and are making it clear to our investee companies that we believe long term investment returns will be enhanced and risks ...

Mercer: benefits to creating fairer long-term value in capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... institutional investors, Mercer has been reviewing how it can help clients implement beneficial changes along the investment value chain, and has asked clients which change they consider essential, achievable, and conversely, those that are needed but ...

SIRIS placed into administration, company confirms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... see putting the data component into one entity, probably as a joint venture, and then leveraging that through the value chain upwards again and developing relationships at that end. That's what the high level proposal looks like." SIRIS is continuing ...