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Nominations open for GRI's Stakeholder Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative is calling for nominations for member to the 2012-2014 Stakeholder Council, its policy forum. There are 50 members to the Stakeholder Council, drawn from business, mediating institutions, and civil society organisations ...

Australian companies fail on labour reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... are failing to accurately report their labour practices management and performance. Nick Edgerton, Colonial First State Global Asset Management Banarra, a Sydney-based consultancy that offers a range of services pertaining to managing and analysing ESG ...

GRI releases new standards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI ) has updated its sustainability guidance to enhance reporting of operations impacting on human rights, gender and community. The new version, 3.1, is touted as improvements that strengthen expansiveness of reporting ...

AGL wins award for sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) and the Carbon Performance Leaders list for the ASX 200/ NZX 50. AGL is also ranked on the global Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for 2010/11. AGL was the only Australian company to be named among ...

PRI hires Rob Lake as director of strategic development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Netherlands- based investment manager with approximately â,¬270bn in assets under management. He previously worked for Henderson Global Investors as head of corporate engagement. He is also a member of the Program Board of the Sustainable Investment ...

Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... Sustainability reporting has been hampered by a number of factors, including a lack of broadly used standards and the impact of the global financial crisis, which impacted on time and money that managers could devote to implementing ESG reporting protocols. ...

Australian companies asked to disclose water exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian companies and the top 50 New Zealand companies. The IGCC has sent the water questionnaire as part of a separate, global survey conducted with the CDP. "The main development is the scale of the project this year," Fabian said. "It's going out ...

Mercer expands ESG consulting capability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
Mercer has hired Dr. Richard Fuller to its investment consulting division, enhancing its ESG capabilities for clients. Fuller joins Mercer from HESTA Super Fund where he served as investments analyst, PRI. At HESTA, he created the fund's ESG and Active ...

ANZ targets 40 percent women managers by September

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... part of the annual review and is "[e]mbedding gender equity into our human resource policies and practices," such as a global recruitment policy mandating qualified women on the shortlist for all roles at the company. ANZ was named one of 98 "employers ...

"Steady but modest" increase in number of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... Australia has increased from 8.9 percent of total positions in 2009 to 10.9 percent in 2011, in line with "steady but modest" global increases, according to a report by GovernanceMetrics International (GMI) this week. "Overall, the number of women on ...