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Less than half of suppliers reporting CO2 data: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... companies are currently establishing the extent to which future regulation will impact their business, CDP noted. "The science and the policy have never been clearer," said Paul Simpson, chief executive officer of CDP. "Greenhouse gas emissions must ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... sustainability might be further emphasises and clarified given the release of the government's National Innovation and Science Agenda. However, neither "sustainability" nor "innovations" are panaceas, but rather long-term considerations that are deeply ...

Workplace diversity a driver of innovation: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia Picking up on the release of the government's National Innovation and Science Agenda, DCA pressed the case for the link between diversity in the workplace and increased innovation. "As a general principle ...

Panel discussion: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... become," Murphy said. "That question isn't new - when Adam Smith looked at his theory of economics, he came out of social science I think what's happened over the years as we've become more specialized and we've said, this is a finance field, this is ...

Assessing net benefits of Indigenous CFI projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... The experience and establishment of Indigenous savanna fire projects in Australia resulted from a combination of Western science and traditional knowledge. Combining two cultures and two knowledge bases in this way to get credible scientific rigour around ...

Citi joins Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... programme manager, Natural Capital Declaration. "We look forward to working with Citi to help catalyse the inclusion of science and data on natural resource constraints and environmental pressures into lending and investment decisions." CD is a global ...

Business response to climate change "creative self-destruction"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... between their role in these big organisations, trying to make them a little less unsustainable, and what the emerging science is telling us. They could see this contradiction, and I think that, in interviewing people, we moved beyond their identity/emotional ...

Origin Energy endorses We Mean Business commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... James Day, CDP's Australia and NZ director. "Origin's commitments are significant, especially its commitments to adopt a science-based emissions reduction target and reduce short-lived climate pollutant emissions. Origin is a major carbon emitter, and ...

Companies exposed to anti-bribery, corruption compliance risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
As Australian companies increase their business overseas, their use of third parties and agents expose them to challenges on anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) compliance, according to a survey report by KPMG International. Gary Gill, partner and head ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... worldwide," Day said. The collaborative engagement around the six initiatives, which are broad-based commitments around "science-based carbon emission reduction targets", strategies around renewable energy procurement and supply chain activities, as ...