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Net Balance: financial, shared value performance related

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Enhanced Responsibility - and a professor from the University of Sydney Business School - reviewed five years of sustainability performance data on 287 ASX listed companies. "A CSV score for each company was derived by rating a subset of 26 variables ...

GRI and IIRC sign agreement for closer cooperation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... order to deliver value to investors and other stakeholders. "Integrated Reporting is a powerful lever to mainstream sustainability disclosure where it relates to a company's ability to create and sustain value," Ligteringen said. "Investors are increasingly ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... opportunity-seeking strategy and would most likely appeal to investors in countries that have already started considering sustainability metrics in their investment process. "The second application, where I believe the Australian market will be most ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... portfolio look more sustainable while getting investment returns that we want to target," said Bill Hartnett, head of sustainability at LGS. "We are trying to get that via ESG integration and the thematic allocation like these green bonds." Hartnett ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
It is the goal of sustainability practitioners to establish corporate social responsibility (CSR) to provide the company with processes and responsibilities to respond resiliently to both everyday interactions and to the extraordinary situations that ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... annual review. The ACCSR's The State of CSR 2012/2013 surveyed 160 people working in corporate responsibility and sustainability in Australia and New Zealand and asked them to evaluate leadership and CSR. ACCSR has researched the issues that impact on ...

Monash University selected as sustainable development hub

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Development Solutions Network is a wonderful tribute to the work being done by the passionate leaders at our Sustainability Institute," said Professor Ed Byrne, Monash University's vice-chancellor, in an announcement from Jakarta. "Professor ...

Local Government Super sells upgraded property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... "[SKM House] moved from 3.5 stars NABERS to 4.5 stars NABERS (without the use of Greenpower)," Churchill told The Sustainability Report. "Because we use 100% Greenpower for our base building usage, all our buildings in our portfolio receive the maximum ...

Jessica Robinson named ASrIA general manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... for over 15 years in professional services and business consulting, with specialism in the financial services and sustainability industries, ASrIA said. According to Robinson's LinkedIn profile, she has previously worked as a director at Enecore Carbon ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... monitoring system based on a set of essential biodiversity variables to improve the data feeding biodiversity policy and sustainability metrics. Melodie McGeoch The team of 30 researchers, led by Henrique Miguel Pereira from the Centre for Environmental ...