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LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... its equity portfolios and found that while domestic Australian equities are more carbon intensive, they have a lower ESG risk than international peers. Bill Hartnett The audits show that the ASX is more carbon intensive - in terms of CO2 emissions/revenue ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Business. Sanjay Sharma, dean, University of Vermont School of Business. Rather than focusing solely on cost savings and risk reduction, as has been an approach to environmental sustainability by a majority of companies, companies that have proactively ...

Industry welcomes CEFC expert review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... that the CEFC will have at its disposal in tailoring investments are a capacity to provide funds, change the allocation of risk amongst the participants, lengthen the available tenor for loans and offer an appropriately concessional cost of funds." Experts ...

SAM targets 2,500 companies for sustainability assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... aspects focusing on the long-term development of corporate value. The questions cover topics including corporate governance, risk and crisis management, human capital development and the quality of environmental and social reporting. After analysing ...

International human rights law impacts Australian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Tell us how your activities align with the standards required of us, when financing your project.' So there is financing risk associated with not acting in accordance with human rights standards. There is also construction and operational issues that ...

CSA warns on timing of undirected proxy vote legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... 2012 AGM season, retail shareholders could lose the right to vote on executive remuneration resolutions and there is the risk of triggering a negative vote against a company under the two-strike rule. CSA said in a statement that they reviewed undirected ...

GRESB joins forces with GRI to push sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) will partner with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a move designed to advance the standardisation of reporting on environmental, social and economic performance in the global real estate ...

Fund manager: remuneration reports filled with "mumbo jumbo"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... as dividends on unvested shares being paid before the accomplishment of the long-term goals that the shares are tied to. "Risk is hardly ever factored into remuneration reports," he added, also saying that areas such as staff turnover- risk management ...

Santos identifies 24 material sustainability indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... rated by both Santos and its stakeholders. Other issues include air quality, community wellbeing, governance and policy and risk management. Santos also reported on how it accomplished its 2011 sustainability goals. It did not have any environmental ...

Investors require more corporate ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... assets are in dedicated RI strategies, Hartnett said. "We're great fans of disclosure... primarily because it greatly assists risk identification and it enables managers to be better informed, better at evaluating, better at pricing, better investors," ...