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Publish What You Pay reexamining extractive companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... investors and analysts on the current reporting standards. The final report will be an update to PWYP's 2011 report, The Australian Securities Exchange: extractive industry companies and payment disclosure, and will be launched at the Extractive Industries ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Most large Australian companies are struggling to find strategic responses to climate change adaptation challenges, "apparently paralysed by short-term profit first thinking, uncertain political risks and a corporate culture unused to volatility and ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... well. There are a number of managers providing funds into the impact investment sphere already in Australia, and the Australian government is further encouraging the sector's development through DEEWR's AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment ...

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
... companies and investors about the real drivers of long-term performance, risk and value,' said Ann Byrne, CEO of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors. "We encourage all Australian listed companies to participate in the consultation, with ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... consider. Producers' social licence to operate has been impacted by the low community cooperation of some players in the Australian market. Public debate has become polarised by the experience of CSG, and campaigns aimed at mobilising institutional investors ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... international politics and the process of renewable energy development. But what I was looking at was what the exposure of the Australian market is, and if you're involved in that as an investor or as a company, what might you do to mitigate risk. You ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has put forth a shareholder resolution for the annual general meeting of TOMRA, calling on the Norwegian company to cease manufacturing tobacco sorting machines. Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical managing director TOMRA manufactures ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Golden North project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... funding and project support from peak body Food South Australia Inc, and 50% of the project cost will be met by the Australian Government's Clean Technology Food and Foundries Investment Program. Golden North's manufacturing base is in Laura, north of ...

Climate Institute calls for long-term national carbon budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... have grown at around twice the global average over recent decades, make this particularly challenging. If the average Australian consumes no more of the global budget than the average person in other advanced economies then over the next 40 years we ...