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CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... suppliers have achieved year-on-year emissions reductions. Meanwhile, responding companies reported that extreme weather events disrupted 30% of supply chains in the past year, and that 53% of the suppliers identify certain or likely exposure to increased ...

Global Reporting Initiative publishes events sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published a new guidance for the events sector to increase the relevance of reporting on issues including greenhouse gas emissions, waste, attendee travel, event legacy, and initiatives taken at an event to ...

Highlights of a year in The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... 2012 is set to be another full year for sustainability and environmental, social and governance considerations, including events like the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June, we look back at the topics that stirred interest ...

Optus CR discloses responsible marketing, customer service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... the London Benchmarking Group (LBG) methodology, plus an additional AU$3.3m in workplace gibing donations and fundraising events. The figure includes management costs, assurance packages and support to customers. In addressing its environmental materiality ...

CSL reports new anti-corruption policy, lower emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... AU$16.4m of that went to supporting patient communities "in the areas of education awareness, research, advocacy, patient events, humanitarian access and patient assistance." As part of that amount, CSL Behring donated more than 1m units of von Willebrand ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... come as a shock to many. This is particularly so when the grounding of the airline came just days after the company's AGM. Events like these raise questions about whether a company has a genuine commitment to good corporate citizenship or whether its ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... their reputational risk is different. "The risk for Santos is that they're a well-known company - they sponsor a number of events, they're in the public eye, but they're not a retail presence, and they have massive gas supplies elsewhere," Fayers said. ...

ACSI recommend against News Corp board re-election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... affiliated or longstanding directors with credible skilled outside directors. ACSI's call is in response to the chain of events subsequent to the phone hacking scandal at the now-defunct weekly UK tabloid, The News of the World, which "brought into question ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... ('AAA-CCC'). Following this, each sector is subject to an annual review and updated on a rolling basis in response to major events." ESG risk and return factors should in fact be seen along the continuum of traditional financial analytics, and in fact ...