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British government to mandate LSE greenhouse gas disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... assess if the approach should be extended to all British large companies from 2016. Clegg announced the plan at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - otherwise known as the Rio+20 Summit. The Australian Stock Exchange does not require ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... which was launched last December, will implement certain national obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and also creates financial incentives to undertake emission avoidance and sequestration ...

Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Development's outcome document. The four governments have invited the Global Reporting Initiative and the United Nations Environment Programme to support them in the initiative, which will aim to make sustainability reporting standard practice ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... "Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas" publication. "Fracking" will also be a topic of discussion as part of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20, and also supports the fracking risk disclosure guidelines issued ...

GRI Focal Point's local angle to sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... paragraph on sustainability disclosures into the outcomes document The Future We Want that will be the result of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - otherwise known as Rio+20. The Rio+20 conference will take place from 20-22 June. ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... companies cited alignment with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and only 7% cited alignment with the United Nations Global Compact. The United Nation's 2008 Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework did not feature at all among company reporting ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia being left behind than being caught too far out front." Hueston noted that despite the failure of the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference in Copenhagen to reach an international agreement on addressing ...

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining names director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... adjunct faculty of Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies and the visiting faculty for the United Nations mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica). CSRM founding director, David Brereton, will become SMI deputy director - research ...

UKSIF endorses Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... essential services for everyone," according to the declaration. The initiative will be launched at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). "In the 20 years since the Earth Summit, sustainable investment and finance ...

International human rights law impacts Australian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... implement and monitor human rights policies in a series of Business and Human Rights Workshops sponsored by the United Nations Association of Australia (Victorian Division) over the coming months. See Also: Nearly half of ASX100 companies exposed to ...