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Australia enters the era of carbon as a commodity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Sydney-headquartered COzero is both a buyer of offsets and an originator of offsets through projects in Australia and in China. The company was founded in 2007, and will seek to list on the Hong Kong Exchange in the next year, Armstrong said. In addition ...

Global Reporting Initiative launches sustainability database

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... reports and profile information to the database. "Financial figures are no longer enough to get the full picture of a company's performance," said Ernst Ligteringen, GRI chief executive. "Stakeholders of all sorts want to take a company's sustainability ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... coal seam gas projects - Origin Energy, AGL, Santos and Dart Energy - to weigh their possible ESG risk exposures. Each company has different profiles, exposures and risk drivers when it comes to managing their coal seam gas holdings. "Origin and AGL ...

Variability in level of ASX100 supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... relating to suppliers, and downstream, relating to products and services. According to the report, ANZ has the highest company average score at 54.2%, followed by Woolworths at 52.6% and Fosters Group at 51.6%, while the top 10 companies scoring an average ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... in resource-rich countries and those countries governance structures through the full publication and verification of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas, and mining. Under the EITI pilot, Australia will assess the transparency of ...

Stockland increases green star ratings, reduces water use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... in leasing negotiations were either satisfied or very satisfied with the service that they receive from Stockland." The company reported a lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) of 2.15 for 2011, a 64% decrease from 5.98 in 2010. The number of lost ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... it." Although ESG analysis from equities may be used in fixed income analysis, it's not a perfect match because different company subsidiaries could issue individual debt and the characteristics of the subsidiaries' debt could be different from the overall ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... environmental and social issues. This is the first AGM season in which shareholders the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration report has received a 'no' vote of 25% or more at two consecutive AGMs - the so-called "two strikes and you're ...

75% of ASX100 exposed to corruption in high-risk countries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... employees from becoming involved in corrupt practices," the report said. "In the current environment, the chances of an ASX200 company with international operations, no stated anti-bribery policy, and/or inadequate anti-bribery management controls becoming ...

Dean Paatsch launches new governance advisory firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... research programme that will highlight "governance issues or market practices that negatively impact ownership rights," the company said at its launch. "You could say that there is a bit of 'once more, with feeling' here, but we're very keen to make ...