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Metcash drop paper supplier over Indonesian foresting concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
Wholesale distribution and marketing company Metcash has tested its newly implemented sustainable supply chain management program by dropping Solaris Paper because of concerns its parent company Asia Pulp and Paper is foresting in Indonesian native ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) will provide opportunities for landholders to generate tradeable carbon credits from carbon abatement and sequestration activities. But while landholders across Australian industrial sectors potentially stand to offset ...

Social risk: the impact on the Australian cattle industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian cattle industry has been whiplashed by the effects of a five-week-long suspension of live export of cattle to Indonesia. The suspension was prompted by the public outcry after broadcaster ABC showed instances of animal cruelty at Indonesian ...

Report: 100 South African companies used GRI in 2010

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... III code is broken down into nine separate chapters- ethical leadership and corporate citizenship; boards and directors; audit committees; the governance of risk; the governance of information technology; compliance with laws, rules, codes and standards ...

Deloitte, GRI to develop new program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
A new program between the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Deloitte will see the GRI's G3 and G3.1 guidelines given a new Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) taxonomy, meaning sustainability data can be communicated more easily to investors ...

Companies investing in sustainable operations showing returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
A study of five Australian organisations, including Blackmores and Woolworths, has shown that companies that invest in sustainable business operations and incorporate ESG factors into their financial reporting are seeing returns on investment much sooner ...

"Steady but modest" increase in number of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... The report for the first time analysed aggregate numbers on board committees. In Australia, women make up 12.3 percent of audit committee membership, 11.7 percent of governance/nomination committees and 10 percent of remuneration committees. The top ...