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Global Reporting Initiative launches new G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published the newest version of its sustainability reporting guidelines, G4, at its annual global conference. G4 is a significantly revised document and places stronger emphasis on materiality and will encourage ...

ACSI names leaders, laggards in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... ASX200 are still rated as no reporting or basic reporting. Ann Byrne In its sixth year of research, The Sustainability Reporting Practices of S&P/ASX 200 Companies: 2013 also follows through on a move flagged by ACSI last year to name both the leaders ...

Australian companies weigh in on Integrated Reporting pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... appeared exclusively on the Stockland website. That idea - that IR doesn't have to mean replacing standalone sustainability reporting - is something that O'Neill of NAB also highlighted. "IR doesn't have to mean one report - it's more about integrated ...

RobecoSAM to use CDP questions in DJSI questionnaire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... market demand. Both the business and investment communities have called for a more harmonized approach to sustainability reporting and for more comparable data," said Paul Simpson, CDP CEO in a statement. " It will now be easier to incorporate climate ...

UN Global Compact, GRI most cited CSR instruments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... concerning Multinational Enterprises on Social Policy (ILO MNE Declaration). "GRI's mission is to make sustainability reporting standard practice among all companies but there is still a long way to go before a 'tipping point' is achieved," said Teresa ...

ACCSR to teach master class at GRI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... day program on stakeholder engagement, and will focus on the link between stakeholder engagement and sustainability reporting. The GRI conference runs from May 22 nd -24 th 2013. The GRI Focal Point Australia is coordinating an Australian delegation ...

GRI and IIRC sign agreement for closer cooperation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and IIRC have a shared view of the evolution of corporate reporting, in which integrated reporting and sustainability reporting have a vital and complementary role. "This MoU cements the relationship and prepares us for the next phases of our work: the ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... high or very high priority. New Zealanders also identified "improving or beginning our organisation's sustainability reporting" as a higher priority than their Australian counterparts, with 53% rating it a high or a very high priority, compared to 40% ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... essential biodiversity variable system, there are a range of variables that are relevant in terms of sustainability reporting. If you think of the ecosystem services leg of that, you're looking at forest cover globally, general habitat changes, nutrient ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Ghandar The report, A Guide for Assurance on SME Sustainability Reports, is a practitioners' guide to sustainability reporting and its importance, and provides guidance on assurance engagements for sustainability reports based on ASAE 3000. "At a very ...