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A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... businesses happily donate without fanfare. Some corporate responsibility initiatives might better be funded by the marketing budget. Woolworths' fresh food future program is well worth supporting and encouraging. It properly acknowledges the global need ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Meg McDonald is the CEO of Low Carbon Australia (LCAL), an independent company established in 2010 by the Australian government. LCAL manages an AU$84.6m investment fund which provides finance to improve energy efficiency and achieve carbon abatement ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Calculating the value of the ecosystem in which a company operates can not only provide measures of the company's dependency on services such as water, land, biomass and climate control, but also offers information for strategic consideration of risk ...

ASA opposes Santos CEO $2m share grant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... critical to introduce a focused alignment of the CEO's incentives with the objective of completing GLNG safely, on time and on budget." But Kolesnikoff questioned why Santos didn't disclose the composition of the peer group upon which the salary calculations ...

Santos identifies 24 material sustainability indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... environmental and social standards - it is both the right thing to do and will help us deliver our projects on time and on budget." Ahead of the July 1 start of the carbon pricing regime, Santos reported having integrated a carbon price into is planning ...

Clean Energy Council sees CEFC as catalyst to unlock capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... bring to clean energy projects, the CEFC could also act as a stabilizer, as a source of funding that's not subjected to budget cycle pressures. "We've been lobbying for years for something like the CEFC," Thornton said. "As important as the actual dollars ...

Managing regulatory impacts priority for CSR practitioners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... report said. "... Proving the impact of CSR increases the likelihood of continuing support for CSR and consequently ensures budget for CSR is assigned each year. However, many CSR strategies and programs may only show benefits over the medium- to long-term. ...

Mercer gives top rating to 9% of ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... their analysis to make well-informed buy/sell decisions. See Also: Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... using the TIP framework, Mercer estimates that climate policy risk contributes 10% to an investment portfolio's total risk budget, compared with 1% for technology risk, and 12% for credit risk premium. Equity risk premium is still the largest portion ...

Australian and NZ companies increase community giving in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
A survey of 48 Australian and New Zealand companies has found that they contributed a total value of almost AU$259m to their community in cash, time, in-kind and management costs. According to the London Benchmarking Group (LBG) report on Australia ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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