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Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Media Sector Supplement is tailored to aid media companies in being transparent about their activities, performance and impact on audience. Companies covered in the supplement guidelines include television, movie and video game creators. "As distributors ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
The scientific consensus around the potential impacts of climate change and the affirmative policy moves of governments around the world to mitigate their impacts means that Australia's renewable energy target and carbon pricing regime is not an outlier ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... with customers globally as well as locally. We can point to reduced costs as benchmarks." Swizzler pointed to SAP Carbon Impact as an example of a software solution. "We look to the business data warehousing together with the core of environmental compliance," ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... expanded dramatically and has very diversified clients." Mooney cited recent research conducted by the Centre for Social Impact for NAB concluding that 2.6m adult Australians - one in seven adults - are "severely or completely" financially excluded. ...

bankmecu, Foresters Community Finance partner on loan scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... SEDIF was established to improve social enterprises' access to finance to help them grow their business and increase the impact of their work in their communities. See Also: Community finance draws eye of institutional investors Christian Super allocates ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
A carbon-constrained economy presents long-term disruptive change to the business environment that requires innovation to respond with long-term strategies seeking opportunities with new business models, according to Sanjay Sharma, dean of the University ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... always taken the role that this is a material issue." Henry Davis York doesn't maintain quantitative measurements of the impact of its workplace management, but O'Connor said it contributes to making the workplace more amenable for employees. "In terms ...

IIGCC calls for reform to EU Emissions Trading Scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has urged European Union ministers to consider changes to the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to ensure its viability. The IIGCC, a collaborative body of investors representing EUR7.5tr ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
Nelmara Arbex is deputy chief executive of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which provides the most commonly accepted set of guidelines for sustainability reporting. During the Australian GRI conference in Melbourne on 26-28 March, Arbex spoke ...

International human rights law impacts Australian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Nicolson said. "In a nutshell, what it requires is establishment of a human rights policy, implementation of human rights impact assessments for new projects or business activities, mainstreaming or integration of human rights considerations across the ...

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Rio Tinto inks lithium deal as chief resigns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON
Rio Tinto has formed a joint venture for a Chilean lithium project, just days before announcing its chief executive will depart.

Green moves: First Nations Foundation, Future Fund

ELIZA BAVIN
Phil Usher has stepped down from his role as chief executive of First Nations Foundation, while Future Fund has welcomed a new director of responsible investment.

Public sector pay gap revealed

ELIZA BAVIN
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency published the public sector gender pay gap data for the first time.

Record green bond issuance on the cards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON
Green bond issuance is predicted to hit US$600 billion this year.

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