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Climate Bonds Standard tackles low-carbon transport

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... emerge in coming years; low-carbon transport bonds certified under the Climate Bonds Standard will provide investors with assurance about the environmental benefits of specific projects."

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... potential reward in timber products is the increasing focus on certification and country-of-origin labeling for supply chain assurance, said MaryKate Hanlon, manager - sustainability, research, and communications at New Forests Asset Management. Hanlon ...

Colonial First State GAM publishes global stewardship code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... engage with companies. We're holding ourselves out to a standard such that it will form a part of our annual auditing and assurance process, which means we're going to have a look at all those processes and make sure we have good evidence and good ways ...

GRI, RAFI to collaborate on human rights reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Reporting and Assurance Frameworks Initiative (RAFI) will work together to improve corporate human rights reporting. RAFI is a recently launched initiative that is developing frameworks for companies reporting ...

ICMM members commit to adopt GRI G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... of the G4 guidelines takes effect for the year ending 31 December 2015, and each member company will report and gain assurance against the G3 guidelines until they make the transition to the G4 guidelines, ICMM said. "ICMM's role is to work with its ...

CBA questioned over carbon emissions calculations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... 10,000 tonnes in excess of our target. If you were to take the 3,500 out, it would be in excess." KPMG provided limited assurance for the sustainability metrics, but Walton noted that they did not audit the narrative around the figures.

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... accounting' could pave a way as a new specialized field to handle the complex technical problems that accounting for and assurance of water resources, climate change, carbon trading and whole ecosystems present." One area that will have to be overcome ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... that can be counted in pools qualifying for Climate Bonds labelling. The rest of the Climate Bond Standard provides assurance for investors around the proper use of proceeds." The project received funding from the Bank of America Foundation. "This will ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... strengthen and aid in the development of the market as a whole. Greenfleet believes that it is very important to provide assurance to our supporters, to the community and to the market, that the offsets we generate meet a recognised standard and that ...

IIRC CEO favours market-led adoption of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... intended to explain the breadth not to be what you report, if you understand what I mean. "The second area is about assurance. We are well aware that it will not succeed without assurance and we are working on a project on assurance. The third, which ...