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IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... reflects the full range of factors that contribute to the creation of sustainable value," said Paul Druckman, IIRC chief executive officer, in a statement accompanying the report's release. "Huge strides have been made in recent years, for example to ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Indigenous trainees and staff each year to 2014, said Mark Hand, ANZ managing director of retail distribution, Australia, and executive sponsor of the ANZ Indigenous Action Plan. "To achieve these targets we have established a dedicated Indigenous employment ...

Former SA Premier Rann appointed Low Carbon Australia Chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Former South Australia Premier Mike Rann has been appointed incoming chair of Low Carbon Australia by Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Greg Combet. "Mr Rann brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, to our organisation at a time ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... shareholder's point of view, a lack of board independence raises the risk of nepotism, related party transactions, excessive executive remuneration, etc." AMP Capital has voted against a number of remuneration reports and director elections for those ...

Plantic opens expanded bioplastics facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Watson said. Coles switch to Plantic's product will have a significant environmental impact, said Brendan Morris, chief executive officer of Plantic Technologies. "Our life cycle assessment shows that, over the course of 12 months, the impact of Coles ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
The scientific consensus around the potential impacts of climate change and the affirmative policy moves of governments around the world to mitigate their impacts means that Australia's renewable energy target and carbon pricing regime is not an outlier ...

Greg Bourne appointed acting chair of ARENA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... renewable energy development and project commercialisation, and has been a former director of Carnegie Wave Energy and chief executive officer of the World Wildlife Fund Australia from 2004 to 2010. Additionally, Ferguson also announced the appointment ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... that not only guides the business on the ground, but also feeds directly through to global research and development and executive functions. "When I started running this area in Australia, I created a customer-executive-sustainability council for customers ...

AMP hires Ross Andrews as ESG research associate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
AMP Capital has hired Ross Andrews as ESG research associate in line with its strategy to expand its proprietary Environmental Sustainable Governance (ESG) research more broadly across investment strategies. Ross Andrews, AMP Capital Andrews will assist ...

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining names director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Saleem Ali has been appointed director to the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), which is part of the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at the University of Queensland. Ali will join the University of Queensland as CSRM's new leader ...