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Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... which was established to improve social enterprises' access to finance to help them grow their business and increase the impact of their work in their communities. "[SEDIF] is an initiative with two clear objectives that we set forth - to provide more ...

Managing regulatory impacts priority for CSR practitioners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... lack of internal buy-in, and the belief that intangible benefits cannot be measured," the report said. "... Proving the impact of CSR increases the likelihood of continuing support for CSR and consequently ensures budget for CSR is assigned each year. ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... social/community aspect of sustainability." Integrated reporting discloses how environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters impact on an organisation's financial performance, and vice versa. There is a global push to create a framework for integrated ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... companies' procurement models is encouraging but since these trends are only now emerging, we are yet to see a transformational impact on suppliers' emissions." The number of responding companies that have climate change strategies covering procurement ...

MSCI launches ESG ratings for sovereign bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... frontier markets, and contain historical time series results for over five years and seeks to explain how ESG factors might impact the long-term sustainability of an economy. MSCI said the ratings aim to complement traditional sovereign debt analysis ...

IGCC working group engages on green finance design, function

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... deficiencies in the economics of projects that are currently uneconomic." From the LCFWG's perspective, the CEFC as financier can impact either side of the risk/return outcome to attract private investors to fund projects - either by reducing risk of ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... based on external valuation models. The findings from this analysis are that the carbon price will have minimal immediate impact on the valuation of the Fund's portfolio, given the high levels of compensation at the start of the scheme. However, a carbon ...

Global Reporting Initiative publishes events sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published a new guidance for the events sector to increase the relevance of reporting on issues including greenhouse gas emissions, waste, attendee travel, event legacy, and initiatives taken at an event to ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
Fund management professionals say that the continuing quest to demonstrate the tangible costs and benefits of integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into portfolio valuations will be a dominant theme for 2012, along with continued ...

KPMG: companies should review anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
Companies with international operations will need to review their anti-corruption and anti-bribery policies if the Australian government removes the "facilitation payments" defence from laws. David Luijerink, KPMG forensic partner In November, the government ...