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ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
It is the goal of sustainability practitioners to establish corporate social responsibility (CSR) to provide the company with processes and responsibilities to respond resiliently to both everyday interactions and to the extraordinary situations that ...

Low Carbon Australia forms alliance with Wiley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia (LCAL) has formed an alliance with engineering and construction company Wiley to develop systems to improve energy efficiency and productivity for food and meat processing companies. Meg McDonald, Low Carbon Australia CEO The alliance ...

Monash University selected as sustainable development hub

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Monash University has been selected one of two universities in the world to lead a United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) hub. As part of the role, Monash will "mobilise research centres, industry and community organisations ...

KPMG: fraud costs Australian/NZ businesses $373 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Australian and New Zealand organisations have lost an estimated AU$373 million due to fraud in the last two years, but only 15% of organisations surveyed by KPMG see fraud as a key risk. Gary Gill "People don't take fraud, bribery and corruption seriously ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
An international team of biologists, including an associate professor at Monash University, have proposed a global biodiversity monitoring system based on a set of essential biodiversity variables to improve the data feeding biodiversity policy and ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
There are US$178.5bn of sustainable investments in Australia, representing about 18% of total assets under management, with integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors being the single largest strategy employed by sustainable investors ...

Drive to push corporate communication of ESG materiality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Companies need to develop and implement new strategies to uncover and communicate how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are material to business performance, and investors need to ask companies questions on material ESG factors during ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
More company suppliers than ever have identified current or future climate changes risks to their global supply chains, but only 28% of suppliers report having a target for emissions reductions. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Supply Chain's fifth ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Pension schemes could potentially become insolvent within 35 years if future global economic growth is hindered by resource constraints and increasing costs from environmental pressures, according to new research from the British Institute and Faculty ...

Net Balance launches research and development institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Net Balance has launched a dedicated research and development initiative, the Tomorrow's Agenda Research Institute, and appointed Les Hems as inaugural director of research and development. Tomorrow's Agenda Research Institute will see Net Balance take ...