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KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
More than 60% of companies surveyed in a global KPMG report say they have a strategy for corporate sustainability, with cost reduction a key rationale and a primary focus on the environmental side, particularly on resource and energy efficiency. According ...

Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... determine the roadmap for how they should incorporate ESG and other sustainable investment ideas into their investment strategy. "For a lot of investors, we see them integrating ESG considerations into their - or their managers' - investment decision-making ...

Woodside shareholders reject carbon disclosure resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... additional disclosure to be mandated, because of the potential risk climate change regulation poses to the company's strategy." ACSI prefers to see investors engage directly with companies and use shareholder resolutions as a last resort, said ACSI CEO ...

PwC, Institute of Chartered Accountants recognise NFP transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... process in an increasingly competitive sector." Organizations' disclosure was assessed according to criteria including strategy, financial and operational performance, governance, risk policies and sources of funding. The number of entrants increased ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... reported. Rio Tinto's quality of sustainability reporting received praise for clarity and for relating ESG to company strategy and material risks. Nick Edgerton - Colonial First State Global Asset Management "It's a good clear explanation related to ...

Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... financial performance, sustainability and governance disclosure often fail to make the connection between the organisation's strategy, its financial performance and its performance on environmental, social and governance issues," the report said in its ...

Westpac targets 40 percent women in senior management by 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... CEO Gail Kelly - with " all executives responsible for sponsoring the implementation of our diversity and flexibility strategy," and the fact that 30 percent of their board are women as accomplishments against the principles. But the bank is also focusing ...

GRI releases new standards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI ) has updated its sustainability guidance to enhance reporting of operations impacting on human rights, gender and community. The new version, 3.1, is touted as improvements that strengthen expansiveness of reporting ...

Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... to both the reporting organization and its stakeholders and that show the relevance of sustainability issues for the strategy of the organization," said Leeora Black, managing director of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) ...