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Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... investment management agreement - there's a minimum 10% threshold that screens out stocks from industries such as uranium mining, gambling, armaments and tobacco, and there's the SRI overlay." Hartnett said that it is more difficult to use responsible ...

Citi analyses impact of carbon price repeal on ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... haulage and power generation on-site. Transport is also impacted, including rail and domestic shipping. "With margins in the mining sector under pressure from lower commodity prices, a repeal in the carbon tax and associated measures including the diesel ...

Publish What You Pay renews call for mandatory disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... What You Pay Australia is urging the federal government to adopt standards of mandatory disclosure for companies in the mining and extractive industry. Publish What you Pay Australia's push comes as the European Parliament voted in favour of a new Transparency ...

EITI conference advocates for moving beyond transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... implement the EITI standard, which requires full disclosure of taxes, royalties and other fees from the country's oil, gas and mining sectors. Panellists agreed to the broad points that transparency is a tool for better governance and not an end, with ...

Global Reporting Initiative launches new G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... on the application level working group. Matthew Nelson of Ernst & Young, Michael Cass of Shell and Peter Colley of CMFEU Mining and Energy participated in the greenhouse gas emissions working group, Paul Davies of Banarra participated on the disclosure ...

Australia to consider country-level payment disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
The Australian government will consider whether mining companies should be made to disclose the payments they make on a country-by-country basis after evaluating the results of the Australian pilot of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ...

Australian exposed to carbon bubble through coal resources

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... 7.92 GtCO2, Mitsubishi with 4.96 GtCO2, Peabody Energy Corp with 3.26 GtCO2, Anglo American with 2.66 GtCO2, Yanzhou Coal Mining with 2.37 GtCO2, Idemitsu Kosan with 1.59 GtCO2, Mitsui with 1.18 GtCO2, Banpu with 1.03 GtCO2, CLP Holdings with 0.83 GtCO2 ...

Publish What You Pay reexamining extractive companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... rights, aid, faith-based and environmental organisations, and presses for regulatory changes that will cause oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments made to governments in the countries in which they operate. Extractive companies that are ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... (CSR) remit and into a key strategic issue. "The large corporate and transnationals are so far ahead and the oil, gas and mining companies are so far ahead," said Gareth Johnston, co-founder of Future Ready and co-author if the report.... In some cases ...

NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... proposition - what is good for Indigenous Australians and good for banks. So far - a lot of support from levels of government and mining companies, but also traditional owners themselves, who, in many ways, have large amounts of money and expectations ...