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ANZ publishes interim corporate responsibility report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... online staff training program to take greater account of social and environmental risks and opportunities when making business decisions, with reference to the sensitive sector policies. In areas like "bridging urban and rural economic and social divides" ...

Renewable energy could meet up to 80% of global supply by 2050: IPCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... end of the scenarios assessed by the researchers, representing cuts of around a third in greenhouse gas emissions from business-as-usual projections, could assist in keeping concentrations of greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million. This could contribute ...

KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability at KPMG (pictured at left). "It's about strategic competitive advantage and cost reduction - all the core business agenda issues. The survey shows that there's a shift towards a mainstreaming of sustainability in people's minds, but of ...

Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... managers is apply a sustainability filter," Goss said. "We have an approach where across all the aspects of a manager's business, people and processes, we have what we call traffic lights - a manager is good at this, not so good at that - and some of ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... who completed the firm's global employee engagement survey. "The 2010 assessment prompted additional coverage of our Business Resilience and Recovery Programme," the company said. The stakeholder assessment drew praise from Edgerton. "In terms of workplace ...

ANZ reviewing "sensitive sector" policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... documents that are user-friendly and provide effective guidance to relationship managers and risk officers across our business." ANZ has a common set of policies governing customer engagement in the four sectors and cover products and services including ...

Global push for "report or explain" on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Balance.Other partners include the Green Economy Coalition, the Unit for Corporate Governance in Africa, Lawyers for Better Business, SOMO, Calvert Investments, and IDEARSE. The Australian Stock Exchange has not yet adopted a report or explain policy ...

Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Governance Principles and Recommendations. Principle 7 establishes how companies should disclose and communicate "material" business risks, including: operational, environmental, sustainability, compliance, strategic, ethical, reputation or brand, technological ...

Westpac targets 40 percent women in senior management by 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... driving diversity down the supply chain. "It's important to us that our suppliers share the same standards of sustainable business practices and continuous improvement as we do," the bank said. "We screen our suppliers before we engage them to ensure ...

Nominations open for GRI's Stakeholder Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... member to the 2012-2014 Stakeholder Council, its policy forum. There are 50 members to the Stakeholder Council, drawn from business, mediating institutions, and civil society organisations, but council members do not represent their employers. Currently ...