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Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... have joined in an initiative to commit to corporate sustainability reporting, in support of paragraph 47 of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development's outcome document. The four governments have invited the Global Reporting Initiative and the United ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Rules for a Golden Age of Gas" publication. "Fracking" will also be a topic of discussion as part of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20, and also supports the fracking risk disclosure guidelines issued by the ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... management and governance. ASCI is also supporting the Report or Explain campaign that will be presented at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development - also known as Rio+20 - next week. The campaign proposes that all large companies should be required ...

GRI Focal Point's local angle to sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability disclosures into the outcomes document The Future We Want that will be the result of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - otherwise known as Rio+20. The Rio+20 conference will take place from 20-22 June. The proposed ...

Corporate sustainability commitments rise, CSR action lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... climate change are not equally considered." Advancing corporate sustainability will get an airing at this month's UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20. The Global Compact will host the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum.

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... superannuation fund managers and service providers at the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI)'s annual conference. "Firstly, on the whole scientific debate, I think you'd have to be a real gambler to disregard the high degree of scientific ...

UKSIF endorses Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... services for everyone," according to the declaration. The initiative will be launched at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). "In the 20 years since the Earth Summit, sustainable investment and finance has moved ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... 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 Report on GRI's progress towards developing the forthcoming ...

Fund manager: remuneration reports filled with "mumbo jumbo"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... that is not easily understood, said Peter Morgan, founder of 452 Capital. Speaking at the Ownership Matters governance conference in Melbourne, Morgan told an audience of investors, corporate officers and others that remuneration reports did not aid ...

Investors require more corporate ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... disclosures to the market. Ann Byrne, the CEO of ACSI, told participants at the Australian Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Conference on Sustainability and Integrated Reporting that investors need "materiality plus data quality and consistency" when ...