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Reports analyse landscape for sustainability disclosures by corporate Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... provisions relating to ESG, while South Africa has 324. However, when it comes to requirements for reporting, Australia has seven, while Singapore has 12 and South Africa has 20. Singapore has introduced a carbon tax for direct large direct emitters ...

Sodexo Australia moves to cage free eggs for fresh egg supply

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... operations from cage free egg supplier Farm Pride Foods. Photo courtesy Sodexo Australia The switch to cage-free eggs comes seven years ahead of parent company Sodexo's corporate responsibility target. Cage free eggs are part of its B etter Tomorrow ...

IFC invests US$75m in Garanti Bank gender bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... of IFC's strategy in Turkey to boost financial inclusion, especially for women entrepreneurs. IFC noted that in the last seven years, the IFC has worked with Turkish banks to provide $61 million in financing for women entrepreneurs under its Banking ...

Future Super Renewables Plus option sees $50 million inflow in two weeks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... members late last year and asked what are the options and features that we can bring to our members," Verway said. "Seventy-seven percent wrote back and said, 'we want an option that invests even more in renewable energy. There has been a lot of members ...

Climate-related shareholder resolutions put to Rio Tinto, QBE AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
In watershed votes on climate-related issues, more than 18% of shareholders at Rio Tinto and QBE backed resolutions related to climate change-related risk. Bill Hartnett, head of sustainability, Local Government Super On May 2, Rio Tinto held its Australian ...

Diversity Council Australia discusses myths around workplace flexibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... that despite speaking about this for so many years, so many organisations are grappling with this." DCA has established seven myths and their realties that come with workplace flexibility and their benefits: MYTH REALITY 1. Flexibility is just an HR ...

Deloitte survey finds procurement leaders lack visibility in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... including human rights," she said. "I think that's a good model for cooperation within industries and it's been going on for seven or eight years." Another issue raised by the report is the statistics that 51% of procurement leaders believe their current ...

Local Government Super co-files ACCR-organised Rio Tinto shareholder resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
More than a hundred individual shareholders and three global asset owners including Local Government Super (LGS) have co-filed a shareholder resolution calling on Rio Tinto to review and fully disclose its relationships with industry bodies including ...

The Fred Hollows Foundation invests in eye care centre social enterprise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... looked at what we could achieve with the grant funding alone, as if we were to grant-fund the whole hospital. We could do seven times as many hospitals if we could use the grant money as an investment." Japanese pharmaceutical company ROHTO is the first ...

Thorn agrees to ASIC undertaking for refunds, write-offs for goods leases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... rental companies over lending policies to financially vulnerable Australians. The group, led by UCA Funds Management and seven other organisations, including other investors, engagement specialists, financial counsellors and advocacy organisations, took ...