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Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... corporate constitution of Woodside Petroleum Ltd to require disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for oil and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and the extent to which these factors might impair assets. ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... report named the top 10 companies by their overall approach to integrated reporting - Amcor, GPT, Santos, Transurban, Westpac, Oil Search, AGL, Rio Tinto, IAG, and Orica. Evans noted that all of the companies in the top 10 have reported on ESG factors ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... 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, including ...

Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Liquified natural gas (LNG) is expected to grow the fastest, with projected increases of 7.6% a year. Meanwhile, declining oil production and constraints around petroleum refining "suggest" that net imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products ...

Woolworths' employment, supply chain policies in 2011 report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... policies all applied to suppliers of the own brand. The company this year also committed to using only certified sustainable palm oil by 2015 for all private label products. In terms of Woolworths' environmental disclosures, the company reported that ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... countries governance structures through the full publication and verification of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas, and mining. Under the EITI pilot, Australia will assess the transparency of its financial reporting arrangements ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... would have amended the corporate constitution to require disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for oil and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and the extent to which these factors might impair assets. ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
AWE Limited, an oil and gas exploration and production company, reported a 3% decline in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to approximately 203,000 CO2-e, with production of 6.12m barrel of oil equivalent (BOE), basically the same as the 6.09m BOE production ...

Nearly half of ASX100 companies exposed to human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... companies with operations in countries with weak regulatory frameworks on human rights and companies with operations in the oil, gas and mining sectors, said Mark Lyster, director of Net Balance. Out of the top 100 companies listed on the ASX, 47 had ...

ESG analysis now part of mainstream investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... [global financial crisis], there's the issue of sovereign debt, and there's something that I'm always talking about, peak oil. All of these headlines go to these issues - environmental issues, governance issues, to a lesser degree, but it'll become more ...