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Australian companies weigh in on Integrated Reporting pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... "Last year, for us, was about getting the right narrative at Stockland, bringing together key financials with key sustainability elements and being concise and accessible." The result of the IR pilot test at Stockland yielded a 60-page annual review ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... tailored payment arrangement as the organisation will be refurbishing the business in the initial phase, SEFA told The Sustainability Report at the time. The next stage of SEFA's growth will entail penetrating the market to raise awareness of what SEFA ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Ed Note: The Sustainability Report welcomes this comment from Stephen Hale, a director at Core and former founding MD of OgilvyEarth. Core is an independent Sydney-based marketing and strategy agency Stephen Hale The other day a well known marketing ...

City of Melbourne certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... design building - CH2 - which is now leading the way in environmentally sustainable design. But our commitment to sustainability doesn't end there." Melbourne City Council is also working with the city's commercial building owners and high-rise apartment ...

RobecoSAM to use CDP questions in DJSI questionnaire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
RobecoSAM, the investment specialist that co-publishes the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, will now use the Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP) climate change questions in its environmental data collection approach to public companies. RobecoSAM will ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... research and publishing unit Givewell, director and senior executive at firms including Hunter Hall. He talks to The Sustainability Report about his experiences in responsible investing and the role UCA Funds plays as a social enterprise and ethical ...

UN Global Compact, GRI most cited CSR instruments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Principles 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," ...

GRESB hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) has hired Elsbeth Quispel as head of sustainability. As head of sustainability, Quispel is responsible for developing and managing the annual GRESB survey and its other products and services, including ...

ACCSR to teach master class at GRI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... ACCSR's one 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 ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... like the industry they operate in, the balance sheet and also ESG characteristics. We're trying to identifying the sustainability of a company's earnings. For our SRI product in particular, we use the CAER database and we run a number of questions across ...