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Global Reporting Initiative G4 draft out for public comment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... in a practitioners' network, including representatives from companies such as GPT, AGL, Corporate Express, Qantas, BHP, Westpac and IAG, Geraghty said. In addition, 12 Australians are also participating in the GRI working groups that have contributed ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... engaging with external partners. Banks have partnered with local Indigenous community and civil society groups. For example, Westpac has partnered with Jawun, a group that helps develop relationships between corporates and local Indigenous groups. Westpac ...

Industry welcomes CEFC expert review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... intervention where they can add value through derisking," said Emma Herd, executive director, emissions and environment at Westpac. "The fact that they've also looked at a structure that is a deal-by-deal approach is quite pragmatic. It does provide ...

New South Wales announces first social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Westpac Group, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the Benevolent Society have been selected by the New South Wales (NSW) government to trial an AU$10m social benefit bond - a financing vehicle that will fund a program to assist at-risk families. The ...

CEFC moves to Sydney as industry prepares for its launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... utilising these technologies as well as manufacturing businesses which focus on producing inputs to these technologies. Westpac Institutional Bank believes that the CEFC should play a complementary role to private sector investment in clean energy projects ...

WOB: ASX200 companies not meeting gender diversity standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... 2012 report. The WOB report found that the banks scored highest on the traffic light system - Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Westpac and ANZ all scored green lights, and Suncorp-Metway and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank were close behind with the top level amber ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Dalton Nicol Reid, Dexus Property Group, MTAA Superannuation Fund, Perpetual Investments, The GPT Group, VicSuper, and Westpac Banking Corporation.

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... report named the top 10 companies by their overall approach to integrated reporting - Amcor, GPT, Santos, Transurban, Westpac, Oil Search, AGL, Rio Tinto, IAG, and Orica. Evans noted that all of the companies in the top 10 have reported on ESG factors ...

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... starting to demand more information around sustainability data. The other trigger is work around the supply chain. You have Westpac, for example, asking questions of suppliers and people are providing information on how they match up to these questions ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
Westpac Group has recorded increases in employee engagement and the percentage of women in leadership and decreases in its lost time injury frequency rate (LITFR) and greenhouse gas emissions, against a backdrop of a net profit of AU$6.99bn, an increase ...