Search Results

Showing 241 - 250 of 268 results for "The Sustainability Report"

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... and purposes and values on its website. The firm reported a number of environmental accomplishments to The Sustainability Report, including increasing their building's NABERS rating from 3 to 4.5, revegetating a 40 metre section along the Brisbane River ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability reporting. During the Australian GRI conference in Melbourne on 26-28 March, Arbex spoke with The Sustainability Report on GRI's progress towards developing the forthcoming G4 reporting guidelines, how G4 will play into the move towards ...

Santos identifies 24 material sustainability indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... tonnes in annual greenhouse gas emissions, to 3.61m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e). In the sustainability report, Santos identified 24 material sustainability indicators, divided into four categories - environment, community, "our people" ...

Investors require more corporate ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... to sign off on financial accounts, then there should be the same sort of emphasis on signing off on the sustainability report as well." Panellists discussed disclosures around carbon prices as a proxy for wider ESG reporting. Because of the uncertainty ...

Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
James Gifford is the executive director of the UNPRI. He is currently in Australia and met with The Sustainability Report to talk about PRI's progress, its future plans, the challenges to implementing responsible investment (RI,) and how PRI can assist ...

AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... investment manager. "Constitution changes were the third most common issue," she said in a statement to The Sustainability Report. AustralianSuper did not provide any statistics on the percentage of resolutions they voted against, but noted that the ...

Leightons under investigation over payment disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... be any adverse financial consequences for Leighton." Leighton Holdings did not respond to a call from The Sustainability Report as of press time. Paterson said that harmonisation of legislation in different countries around the definitions of and penalties ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... declined to put the resolution to shareholders. In a letter to Thomas of Ethinvest that was provided to The Sustainability Report, ANZ Chair John Morschel explained the bank's reasoning. "At ANZ we considered the resolution proposed by Ethinvest very ...

Highlights of a year in The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
2012 is set to be another full year for sustainability and environmental, social and governance considerations, including events like the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June, we look back at the topics that stirred interest ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... which is often the tack that institutional investors take when addressing the issue with company boards. The Sustainability Report spokes with governance/ESG managers at several institutional investors and superannuation funds, and while none would comment ...