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bankmecu MD discusses integrated reporting implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Companies and multilateral banking institutions are considering the role that Integrated Reporting (IR) can play in enhancing transparency and financial stability, with bankmecu's managing director participating in a panel discussion on the topic at ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... internalised to impact on the financial health of a business, Woo said. KPMG points to forces such as "globalisation, digital connectivity, the financial crisis, population growth, the explosion of the global middle class, climate change and other economic ...

GRI launches 2013 taxonomy, online G4 support tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... organisations preparing sustainability reports to the G4 standard. The GRI Taxonomy 2013 enables organisations to produce digital sustainability reports using G3.1, G3 and the recently released G4 sustainability reporting guidelines by tagging sustainability ...

Australian Ethical Investment to reorganise business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... clients and so forth have come from considerable investment over the past 12 months into our social media strategy and digital communication strategy, making it easier for clients to come to us and transact with us," he said. Australian Ethical has also ...

PRI working group calls for sustainable palm oil commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... working group supports the decision of the RSPO to direct member companies that are implicated in the fires to submit digital maps of their plantations in Sumatra and Kalimantan. It also endorses the recent statement by the Secretary General of the RSPO ...

StepUP loans provide social, economic return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
The social and economic return of the StepUP micro-loan program run by National Australia Bank and Good Shepherd Microfinance is equal to $2.68 for every dollar invested, according to a report by the Centre for Social Impact (CSI). Good Shepherd Microfinance ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... literally. The Woolworths CEO, Grant O'Brien, has referenced this as 'consumers driving the future of the businesses through a digital transformation of business'. Smartphone apps with barcode scanning features will help consumers examine deeper product ...

Equinix Sydney facility receives LEED certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Equinix operates in 38 markets globally and provides data service centre services for more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies.

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... growth in online advertising and the disruptive innovations that are catalysing traditional media companies' push into digital models, according to a report by Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, a sustainable research analyst at AMP Capital. But additionally, there ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... environmental and economic impacts. As an example, Sharma cites Kodak, which failed to see the disruptive opportunity of digital technologies in favour of sticking with traditional products - films, paper and film processing machinery that brought in ...