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G4 to transition to GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... independent basis, meaning that practitioners can trust that they represent inclusive multi-stakeholder input and global best practice at any given point in time. In particular, it is clear that GRI's longstanding multi-stakeholder approach is needed ...

GRI, federal government, announce Pacific partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... agreement between the GRI and The Ethics Centre (formerly the St James Ethics Centre). The Focal Point promotes world's best practice reporting of environmental, social and governance issues by Australian corporations. Prior to that, the federal government ...

ASX companies report shared value strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... is a lot more education that needs to be provided, finding those great examples, holding them up as examples of best practice and using them as a means to get companies to consider their own strategies. Some of what we're seeing is that, typically for ...

CDP, South Pole Group to conduct water security assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... to improve water security," CDP said. The scoring and methodology acknowledges corporate efforts and highlights best practice, and the evaluation is intended to assist stakeholders and investors to understand corporate resiliency and water challenges ...

Queensland commits $3m to social benefit bond pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... bond pilot. While there is not enough experience in Australia - or even globally - to really establish a sense of best practice in design and implementation of social benefit bonds, the experience of the two NSW bonds have contributed to the body of ...

ASrIA launches private equity ESG initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)is launching an initiative to gather private equity managers across the region to discuss opportunities and challenges in considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

CFSGAM reports on transparency, stewardship of assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... global resources team asked a number of companies how they were dealing with the issue," he said. "We hope this best practice assessment helps teams who may not regularly engage with such a diversity of global resources companies" While stranded assets ...

Investor groups publish climate change investment guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... of investment governance and investment decision making, and is a starting point, rather than the culmination of best practice globally, he said. "What's really interesting will be the next round of innovation on re-allocating capital, when the reliance ...

New Forests launches responsible investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... put governance alongside the E and the S. Rather than creating a separate policy, we wanted to reflect industry best practice and establish a responsible investment policy. We took that idea to the internal workshop and it was endorsed at that time. ...

Experts evaluate ERF baseline mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... three year period, with a subsequent true-up, or the baseline will be set by reference to some metric of industry best practice," Anderson said. "The issue with that is that baseline setting is quite complex, and it will be quite resource intensive ...