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Peter Woolcott outlines Australian priorities for COP21

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
A successful outcome to the Paris Climate Summit will be an agreement that sets a strategy for global action over time in which countries that are party to the process are similarly engaged on a pathway to cap global temperature increases to 2 degrees ...

Mercer speaks on managing future risks, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... investment portfolios and meeting the future needs of retirees will require new tools, according to Jane Ambachtsheer, chair and global head of responsible investment, Mercer Investments. Jane Ambachtsheer, Mercer Investments global head of responsible ...

AXA IM to launch second impact investing fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... impact investing fund of funds strategy, which will build upon the first fund launched two years ago. Matt Christensen, global head of responsible investment, AXA IM In 2013, AXA IM's global Responsible Investment team began working with AXA Group to ...

RIAA calls for actions to create responsible financial markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... RIAA deemed most useful in achieving those objectives (see end of article). In building the white paper, RIAA conducted a global comprehensive review of policy developments in major financial markets, both hard and soft laws, including European Union ...

The price of climate change to impact portfolios: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
Responding to climate change is not only a global policy initiative, and a risk factor, but companies' climate change data and responses can be used as a mark of operational and management quality, according to research from BlackRock. Dr Joanna Nash ...

GRI links connections between G4, UN Guiding Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published a linkage document that demonstrates the connections between the GRI G4 Reporting Guidelines and the concepts of the United Nations Guiding Principle on Business and Human Rights. GRI notes that there ...

GRI CEO discusses future of sustainability reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is in the process of transitioning the G4 guidelines to the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards, but that process is only one phase of the organisation's wider mission to enhance the transparency of non-financial ...

WBCSD, CDSB, Ecodesk to develop The Reporting Exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... (WBCSD), the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and Ecodesk are developing The Reporting Exchange, which will be a free global sustainability reporting knowledge platform. The Reporting Exchange will identify " reporting regulations, rules, policies ...

G4 to transition to GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) G4 Guidelines will transition to GRL Sustainability Reporting Standards under a plan approved by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB). The GSSB is the independent standard-setting body created by the ...

Sustainability reporting improving, room to grow: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... have shown the greatest signs of improvement, WBCSD said. The report found that 88% of companies in the sample use the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines, an increase from 75% in 2013, while 12% of reports are "self-declared integrated reports," ...