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Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... around anti-corruption and compliance, and the recent publication of the third ACSI research paper into labour and human rights supply chain policies in ASX-listed consumer staples and consumer discretionary companies. This evolution has manifested in ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... Australian consumer staples and consumer discretionary companies have a publicly disclosed supply chain labour and human rights (LHR) policy, and none of them have board oversight of LHR issues, according to research from the Australian Council of Superannuation ...

Ernst Ligteringen: G4 and the third industrial revolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... OECD MNE Guidelines, the United Nations Global Compact Principles, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. G4 also removed the ranking system that evaluated the quality of an organsation's disclosures to a letter-grade standard. "We ...

EITI conference advocates for moving beyond transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... dis-aggregation, the information about license processes and license holders, the reference to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Gary said. "There's a lot to embrace in this new standard. At the same time, I think there are significant risks ...

GRI, UN Global Compact renew partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... organisations have a long-standing collaboration that has resulted in the Global Compact's 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption being fully aligned with the newly launched G4 GRI sustainability standards. ...

Global Reporting Initiative launches new G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... OECD MNE Guidelines, the United Nations Global Compact Principles, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. G4 is the product of two years of stakeholder consultation and dialogue as part of GRI's due process. GRI organised working ...

Publish What You Pay reexamining extractive companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... would be beneficial to assess risk of extractive companies. " PWYP Australia is a multi-party organisation made up of human rights, aid, faith-based and environmental organisations, and presses for regulatory changes that will cause oil, gas and mining ...

European Commission proposes standards for ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... provide information on strategy, results and risks in six areas - environmental, social and employee-related matters, human rights, anti-corruption and bribery. Additionally, large listed companies will be required to provide information on their diversity ...

UN Global Compact, GRI most cited CSR instruments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines, ISO 26000, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... priority at 59% was managing regulatory impacts and measuring impacts and outcomes of CSR initiatives. Addressing human rights within the sphere of influence and working to combat business corruption were the least nominated challenges, at 27% and 17% ...