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WBCSD, CDSB, Ecodesk create Reporting Exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and Ecodesk have created a free global sustainability reporting knowledge platform. The Reporting Exchange will " identify the reporting regulations, rules, policies, practices ...

Natural Capital Protocol launched worldwide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... impacts and use. "You now have this standardised framework which will assess corporate managers or biodiversity or sustainability managers who are looking at or developing a response to valuing nature," said Andrew Petersen, chief executive officer at ...

Mirvac partners with YWCA NSW for social enterprise HQ cafe

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... measure social return on investment (SROI) for the developments it builds, as part of its This Changes Everything sustainability strategy. See Also: Mirvac launches social return on investment framework

Responsible investment AUM tops AU$630 billion: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... responsible investment approaches ranging from ESG integration across entire funds to strategies including screening, sustainability themed investments, impact investments, community finance and corporate engagement. According to the RIAA benchmark report ...

Stakeholders assess ESG policy priorities for Parliament

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), the Climate Institute and Impact Investing Australia spoke with The Sustainability Report about their priorities across a variety of ESG-related issues and their strategies in putting those priorities ...

Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... and environmental factors to negative performance of bond issuance. Industry professionals that spoke with The Sustainability Report all affirm that they are being asked about the ESG approaches in questionnaires attached to fixed income portfolio mandates ...

90% of ASX200 companies report on sustainability: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
Ninety percent of ASX200 companies provided some level of reporting on sustainability factors in their 2015 public disclosures, according to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) annual review of corporate sustainability disclosure. ...

Companies aware of Sustainable Development Goals: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... wellbeing, and decent work and economic growth. "At ACCSR we've always worked with international frameworks for CSR and sustainability and we're very interested in those developments," said Leeora Black, managing director of ACCSR. "When the SDGs came ...

CEFC provides $68m finance to Geelong office development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... developers, more and more they're attaching themselves to our brand and being associated with ourselves and our sustainability initiatives. The ultimate aim in making this a norm is that the skill base increases and then those costs become more commercially ...

Podcast: Australia's Affordable Housing Solution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... rent. But according to experts, solving the affordable housing crisis is beyond the scope of governments alone. The Sustainability Report is pleased to present to you this podcast, produced in conjunction with Pro Bono News. The Sustainability Report ...