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AMP hires Ross Andrews as ESG research associate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia and South Africa. He has also worked as an environmental consultant in South Africa and Mozambique, primarily in the mining and energy sectors. He has a Masters in Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management from Monash University ...

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining names director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Saleem Ali has been appointed director to the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), which is part of the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at the University of Queensland. Ali will join the University of Queensland as CSRM's new leader ...

Publish What You Pay campaigns for payments transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... rights, aid, faith-based and environmental organisations, is pressing for regulatory changes that will cause oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments made to governments in the countries in which they operate. Launched in June 2011, PWYP Australia ...

KPMG: agribusiness needs national food policy framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... development and in infrastructure that are hindering the industry, particularly as it competes for funding against the mining industry. "There is a great interrelation between having a prioritised food plan, and having a stronger voice where the industry ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... construction materials, electric utilities, marine, multi-utilities, oil, gas and consumable fuels, airlines, metals and mining, paper and forest products, chemicals, building products, commercial services and suppliers, gas utilities, industrial conglomerates ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... company that focused on collecting seeds of native plants that are then propagated and used to rehabilitate land damaged in mining. Using plants that are better suited to the region based on the communities' knowledge has yielded faster rehabilitatio ...

Investors to call on ERSB to investigate carbon asset risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... themselves holding "stranded assets with poor returns" as technology and government policy reduce returns in "coal, oil, gas mining and other high carbon assets."

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... companies in the top 10 have reported on ESG factors for a long time. The characteristics of certain industries, such as mining, put certain companies in a position where reporting and managing ESG matters were more front-of-mind activities. "They're ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing industries ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... 'so-what'. If you talk about Indigenous community engagement and how it impacts on delays or inability to get permits for mining sites, that's a so-what. Privacy is another issue that is a human right, but what's the so-what?... Human rights is like ...