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NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... investment return terms of engaging on issues that are considered as risks to long term investors such as the impacts of global warming." See Also: Christian Super engaging with companies on African assets

Publish What You Pay reexamining extractive companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... data. What we are saying is that this is obviously becoming a major criteria. With the EU and the US rules, 65% of the global market of extractives will be covered. We're now saying it's a competitive disadvantage not to provide that data that's comparative. ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... while climate change science predicts a future in which there are more extreme weather events and brought on by warmer global temperatures and that there is increasing awareness that, as a result of recent extreme events such as bushfires and flooding ...

GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark has hired Ruben Langbroek as head of Asia, responsible for strategic development in the region. Langbroek will strengthen and develop GRESB's relationship with institutional real estate investors, fund ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... potential products or deals that they want to pitch can pitch those ideas and then importantly get help from that group." At a global level, investors are putting more money towards impact investment. J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network ...

Australia/NZ companies lag in Corporate Responsibility Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Australian and New Zealand companies lag global and UK peers in the Corporate Responsibility Index (CR Index), a leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility. The CR Index ranks and compares companies - public, private, partnerships, franchise ...

IIRC publishes Integrated Reporting consultation draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... develop the framework from an institutional investor perspective, alongside with Regnan, AMP Capital, Colonial First State Global Asset Management and Victorian Funds Management Corporation. Three Australian companies - National Australia Bank, Stockland ...

European Commission proposes standards for ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... information - companies are permitted to use the international or national guidelines which they deem appropriate - UN Global Compact, ISO 26000, or the German Sustainability Code, or the Global Reporting Initiative. Currently, fewer than 10% of the ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... "Unburnable carbon" is a concept that only around one third of current proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed by 2050 if global warming is to be constrained to the 2-degree C goal. Unburnable carbon is a risk scenario for companies that are ...

Local Government Super adopts private equity ESG framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... governance (ESG) framework for private equity investment. Bill Hartnett The ESG Disclosure Framework is the result of a global coalition of 40 limited partners, 20 private equity associations and more than 10 leading general partners from 11 countries ...