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Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... issues, the report also notes that listed Australian media companies show poor compliance with ASX corporate governance guidelines. Only a few of the companies analysed by AMP Capital had majority of independent directors, and overall, of the companies ...

Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Oceania had 5% and Africa had 3% But the GRI noted that has the largest percentage of integrated reports using GRI guidelines - 60% of GRI reports from Africa were declared by organisations as "integrated", compared to 42% in 2010. GRI notes that this ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... is deputy chief executive of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which provides the most commonly accepted set of guidelines for sustainability reporting. During the Australian GRI conference in Melbourne on 26-28 March, Arbex spoke with The Sustainability ...

International human rights law impacts Australian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... international human rights law, Nicolson pointed out. Furthermore there are "soft-law" approaches, such as the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises, which create obligations for countries to monitor how multinational corporations manage human ...

GRESB joins forces with GRI to push sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... three years. GRI has published the Construction and Real Estate Sector Supplement, with industry-specific reporting guidelines. GRESB announced the GRI partnership while launching the 2012 sustainability survey. The previous two surveys have been used ...

Investors require more corporate ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... about in IR," he said. "I would like to see reporting go up another notch, potentially mandatory, but certainly with guidelines provided, and indeed having it integrated with some sort of verification and enforcement so that, as the CEO and chair have ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission] ASIC or the ASX, in the case of listed companies, to issue clear guidelines or rules, which would have a cascading effect from the top down." Ethinvest manages nearly 400 direct share portfolios on behalf ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) steering a process that has included a discussion paper with model guidelines. The report found that while 70% of ASX50 companies have established polices to manage environmental, social and governance ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Global businesses are increasingly integrating climate change strategies into their supply chain procurement guidelines, but suppliers' rates of reducing greenhouse gas emission are lower than their corporate clients, according to a Carbon Disclosure ...

Finsia: ESG consistent with superannuation fiduciary duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... explored, but will not be undertaken at the expense of its fiduciary duty. Usual investment criteria apply.'" Finsia's ESG guidelines give a step by step process for superannuation funds on how to implement ESG principles into their investment processes. ...