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PRI working group calls for sustainable palm oil commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... working group supports the decision of the RSPO to direct member companies that are implicated in the fires to submit digital maps of their plantations in Sumatra and Kalimantan. It also endorses the recent statement by the Secretary General of the RSPO ...

StepUP loans provide social, economic return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
The social and economic return of the StepUP micro-loan program run by National Australia Bank and Good Shepherd Microfinance is equal to $2.68 for every dollar invested, according to a report by the Centre for Social Impact (CSI). Good Shepherd Microfinance ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... literally. The Woolworths CEO, Grant O'Brien, has referenced this as 'consumers driving the future of the businesses through a digital transformation of business'. Smartphone apps with barcode scanning features will help consumers examine deeper product ...

Equinix Sydney facility receives LEED certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Equinix operates in 38 markets globally and provides data service centre services for more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies.

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... growth in online advertising and the disruptive innovations that are catalysing traditional media companies' push into digital models, according to a report by Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, a sustainable research analyst at AMP Capital. But additionally, there ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... environmental and economic impacts. As an example, Sharma cites Kodak, which failed to see the disruptive opportunity of digital technologies in favour of sticking with traditional products - films, paper and film processing machinery that brought in ...