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Court back Commonwealth Bank in ACCR case

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... shareholders who own and ultimately control companies to hold the company accountable for harm the environment, abuse human rights or engage in other conduct that isn't in the best interests of their shareholders or the community " said Felicity Millner ...

Corporate Human Rights Benchmark issues draft indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) has developed draft indicators that will be used to rank companies on their human rights performance. Duncan Paterson, CAER CEO The draft indicators are out for public consultation, and CHRB plans to use the ...

GRI defines four strategic goals to expand scope

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... enable smart policy that can address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. These include climate change, human rights, corruption and many others." The second priority is to build more reports and better reporting. The third priority is moving ...

Technology to push sustainability reporting forward: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... organisations to "align real-time decision-making processes with their communication on issues such as climate change and human rights," GRI said. This, in turn, will increase corporate accountability, as companies are seen as powerful institutions that ...

Teachers Mutual Bank win AB +F ESG award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... industry across 18 award categories. The ESG criteria for the award include environmental protection, respect for human rights, continuing improvement of working employment conditions, social commitment, responsible attitudes with suppliers and customers ...

CFSGAM reports on transparency, stewardship of assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... "It's the first one we've done as a working group in my time here," he said. "I think there's scope to do more - human rights is a really interesting one, tax is another one that springs to mind. Issues that would benefit from a multi-team working group ...

Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... started this process, we had Thorn Group and Cash Converters as excluded companies," Walsh said. "We believe, from a human rights perspective, these business models unfairly profit from the poor. Since we've had the engagement group going, we've become ...

GRI publishes linkage document for EU ESG directive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... provide information on strategy, results and risks in six areas - environmental, social and employee-related matters, human rights, anti-corruption and bribery. Additionally, large listed companies will be required to provide information on their diversity ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... sustainability considerations will be influenced by regulatory and reporting changes, while supply chain management and human rights issues will rise up on the agenda. Beyond that, this year could be a tipping point in terms of embedding sustainability ...

Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... poverty, land use, food security, gender equality, Indigenous health, efficient mass transit, social justice and human rights, corruption energy, clean drinking water and youth unemployment, among other issues. "The sole purpose test says that we are ...