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AMP Capital notes increased engagement, board diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Under the two-strikes rule, shareholders in Australian publicly listed companies have the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration report has received a 'no' vote of 25% or more at two consecutive annual general meetings under the legislation. ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... that they're more familiar.... I've always thought that ESG ratings are providing information about the materiality of a company, the quality of its operations that's not captured in traditional analysis." The paper was written by Zoltan Nagy, Doug Cogan ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... and making sure we know where the funds are going." Hartnett said. Some of the other participants in the bond include 3M Company, Blackrock, the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), Calvert Investments, Ellomay Capital, Fjarde AP-fonden ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
It is the goal of sustainability practitioners to establish corporate social responsibility (CSR) to provide the company with processes and responsibilities to respond resiliently to both everyday interactions and to the extraordinary situations that ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... displayed leadership it has been recognised because of strategic CSR activities like embedding CSR practices into how a company is organised and run or setting bold targets and goals. However, when respondents' own organisations have displayed leadership ...

Low Carbon Australia forms alliance with Wiley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia (LCAL) has formed an alliance with engineering and construction company Wiley to develop systems to improve energy efficiency and productivity for food and meat processing companies. Meg McDonald, Low Carbon Australia CEO The alliance ...

GNDI: encourage board diversity, but not by quotas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Global Network of Director Institutes (GNDI). GNDI and its member organisations - including the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) - released the paper with the aim of improving good corporate governance. The paper noted that director appointments ...

ACCSR focus on responsible leadership in conference, report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... topic of ACCSR's annual state of CSR in Australia survey. "We've asked people what they think it means to be a leading company when it comes to social responsibility and what make them leaders," Black said. "One of the things that's come out clearly ...

Drive to push corporate communication of ESG materiality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Briefing Project to "develop and refine content and process innovation around the communication of ESG value drivers at the company-investor interface," as well as embedding ESG issues in financial markets. The project has defined four goals - develop ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
More company suppliers than ever have identified current or future climate changes risks to their global supply chains, but only 28% of suppliers report having a target for emissions reductions. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Supply Chain's fifth ...