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Corporate sustainability a vehicle for value creation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... experience in sustainability. South Africa provides a model and a case study to how companies approach sustainability reporting. Companies listed on Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) are now responsible for producing an integrated financial report that ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... manage ESG factors are moving Australian companies to increase their integrated reporting. But integrated sustainability reporting remains voluntary in Australia, and Evans believes that legislative or regulatory response is necessary. "It is still a ...

Global Reporting Initiative publishes events sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... activities including business meetings, conferences, exhibitions, sports, and cultural festivals. "Public sustainability reporting is still quite a new concept for event organizers, but we anticipate that this new guidance will help them be more transparent ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... the sorts of disclosures that a fund with a sustainability or ESG mission might make. "When it comes to sustainability reporting, it's very different," Vamos said. "The different levels of ethical investing and sustainability and sustainable investing ...

Highlights of a year in The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... by cost reduction, environment Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps? Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration NSW coal miners engage in landmark stakeholder survey Apparel industry exposed to social risk ...

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability to embedding sustainability into core business processes and through to creating value through sustainability reporting. "It's aimed at members who are actually the finance professionals in an organisation - CFOs or the finance department," ...

Global Reporting Initiative calls for G4 public comment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... on the G4 guidelines is open until 24 November and asks participants to share their views on corporate sustainability reporting. G4 will be based on current guidelines, but will also be shaped to reflect the needs for reporting over the next six to eight ...

GRI release reporting standards for construction and real estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Group Communications at Lend Lease. GRI provides guidelines to assist organizations with a framework for sustainability reporting. GRI offers several versions of the guidelines for different sectors, including financial services, mining and metals, electric ...

Carbon price an "entry point" for sustainability discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... CFO and senior corporate financial professionals can play in both mandatory and voluntary carbon and sustainability reporting. "Carbon is the entry point. It seems, barring a catastrophe, the clean energy futures package will become law, and once law ...

GRI and ISO agree to closer collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... international standards, and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), developer of the world's most widely used sustainability reporting framework, have agreed to a closer collaboration relating to reporting and benchmarking. Under the terms of a memorandum ...