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GRI releases airport operator sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has released a new sustainability reporting guidance for airport operators, offering a framework for reporting risks like wildlife strikes, noise and human trafficking. "Airports face many different sustainability ...

Australia well placed to implement ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... view that mechanisms should be developed to mitigate and manage these risks. "Since the mid-1980s, Australia has been a global innovator and leader in applying its sophisticated financial market structure to address financial risks. Our financial markets ...

Companies investing in sustainable operations showing returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... executives. The company is also considering whether to adopt a more formal sustainability reporting template such as the Global Reporting Initiative, or to continue to use its current, more integrated reporting template. "Some organisations are embedding ...

Investor Profile: Colonial First State Global Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) is a global asset management business with A$145.5bn in funds under management. A signatory to the UNPRI, CFSGAM integrates ESG analysis into all levels of its investment process. Here, Amanda McCluskey ...

Renewable energy could meet up to 80% of global supply by 2050: IPCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... concentrations of greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million. This could contribute towards a goal of holding the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius - an aim recognized in the United Nations Climate Convention's Cancun Agreements. ...

KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
More than 60% of companies surveyed in a global KPMG report say they have a strategy for corporate sustainability, with cost reduction a key rationale and a primary focus on the environmental side, particularly on resource and energy efficiency. According ...

GRI developing oil and gas sector reporting guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative is developing sustainability reporting guidelines for the oil and gas sector, to be used by organizations for measuring and reporting on the economic, environmental, social, and governance dimensions of their activities ...

Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... factors is an evolution, according to Martin Goss, senior investment consultant, head of client consulting, Australia at global consultancy Towers Watson. Institutional investors can look at ESG in three general ways - as a component of generating long-term ...

Global Reporting Initiative launch process for new standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the body that provides the most commonly accepted framework for producing sustainability reports, has launched the process that will result in the next generation of GRI guidelines. GRI is calling on its network of ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... contributions against a backdrop of record US$14bn in underlying earnings and falling debt in its 2010 annual report. The global miner disclosed a rate of 0.66 injuries per 200,000 work hours, a 39 per cent improvement over the last five years and an ...