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KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... metrics. This impacts on the investor side, with companies that are signatories to the UNPRI finding it difficult to incorporate ESG factors into their analysis because of a lack of robust analysis. "If you look at the investment market, whether you're ...

Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
Raising institutional investors' awareness of ESG risk and return factors is an evolution, according to Martin Goss, senior investment consultant, head of client consulting, Australia at global consultancy Towers Watson. Institutional investors can ...

Global Reporting Initiative launch process for new standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... reporting topics and registrations - opens on 16 May and will last for 90 days. Related: Global push for "report or explain" on ESG Nominations open for GRI's Stakeholder Council GRI releases new standards for sustainability reporting

Woodside shareholders reject carbon disclosure resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... said. One institutional shareholder that did not support the resolution was $32bn AustralianSuper, said Kelly Christodoulou, ESG manager, investments, at the fund. "As investors, we always value greater disclosure but are not supportive of constitutional ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... in 2009, Rio Tinto reported. Rio Tinto's quality of sustainability reporting received praise for clarity and for relating ESG to company strategy and material risks. Nick Edgerton - Colonial First State Global Asset Management "It's a good clear explanation ...

Global push for "report or explain" on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched the Report or Explain Campaign Forum to encourage increased corporate transparency around ESG impacts. "A report or explain approach could persuade more companies to report rather than to explain why they don't," ...

Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... are not reporting that information. The JSE last year adopted standards requiring an if-not, why-not approach to integrated ESG reporting, and the discussion period for a guidance report on developing integrated reporting framework closes on 25 April. ...

Transparency improving around miners' ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Tinto and Minerals and Metals Group (MMG), an unlisted company based in Australia, are members of ICCM and all three provided ESG reporting using GRI guidelines. BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto both received an A+ application level for their reporting. "We ...

Australian companies fail on labour reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Asset Management Banarra, a Sydney-based consultancy that offers a range of services pertaining to managing and analysing ESG issues, recently issued a report that looked at the sustainability reporting of 10 companies - ANZ, BHP Billiton, BlueScope ...

GRI releases new standards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... concentrate on sustainability reporting, but take the wider issues of corporate social responsibility and developments in ESG and embed that across the program. We've sought not to treat sustainability reporting as a discrete discipline or area."